I don't actualy care if you need Windows my friend. That's not the issue up for debate. :) What I was saying by this email is that I usually don't say much about dual booting because I think it's shite. ;) But since I said something about it what I ment was this...if you want to put XP and SuSE on the box then you could partition say a 20G drive like this.... --beginning of the drive 5G = Windows 15G = Linux For the most part lilo still sees XP NTFS as regular ole NTFS and if you install Windows first and let it install it's bootmanager...install SuSE and let it write lilo to the mbr. Lilo will boot XP just fine..I've done it. You should use XP to make the 5G partition and leave the rest blank, then when your done tweaking your XP partition..updates..etc..etc. Then boot off the SuSE disc..partition the 15G blank space with the tools that come with SuSE..at the end of the install put lilo in the mbr and make sure everything is labelled correct. You should be good to go. Believe me when I say that I don't care who needs Windows or whatever situation. It's just me...and it's not ment to offend or anything else and it's not to start a discussion/flamewar or whatever. Discussing why people need Windows isn't even on my agenda. I've been a computer user since the TI99 days...I doubt anyone could change my mind. Cheers! And have a good week! :) * David Robertson (der@uklinux.net) [020205 03:11]: ->Well, it's ok to put a small boot partition of, say, 20MB before the ntfs ->partition, but you probably don't need it. I used Partition Magic to resize ->but I did have it already. SuSE copes with it OK but other distros don't ->like the partition table it creates. -> ->Unfortunately, some of us do need to have Windows in one form or another on ->our computer to run specific software. Neither Win4Lin or VMware are quite ->there yet. -> ->David -> -> ->On Tuesday 05 February 2002 06:51, you wrote: ->> Here's a rule breaker: ->> ->> You have to have Windows on the first partition of the first drive or ->> nothing will work right. That is if your going to use the default ->> bootloader for a Windows OS or Lilo. ->> ->> /end of rule breaker ;) ->> ->> * GunnarH (gunnar.haland@c2i.net) [020204 22:24]: ->> ->I have innstalled XP on my computer and want my SuSE 7.3 on it to, but ->> SuSE ->can not resize my D disk. ->> ->It is some kluster error of some kind. ->> ->What to do????? ->> ->Gunnar ->> -> ->> -> ->> ->-- ->> ->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->> ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->> ->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the ->> ->archives at http://lists.suse.com ->> -> ->> ->> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- ->> Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ->> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- ->> "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I ->> think it might not be a bad thing." -JC -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC