On Thursday 24 June 2004 09:56, Donald Grayson wrote:
Mark H. Dixon wrote:
Hello:
I am trying to make the switch to Linux, but am starting from the point of absolute cluelessness, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to install Suse Linux 9.1 on a Pentium III system that has 4 hard drives. /snip/
Since it seems that you intend to dual boot Windows/Linux, I would suggest you do some research on it as Linux and Windows XP have been having some issues with coexisting.
-- Donald Grayson Systems Administrator SportPaint, Inc.
I have xp on hda and SuSE 9.1 on hdb with its various partitions for swap, and so on. Suggest you move all your xp stuff off that last drive and devote it to Linux for simplicity's sake. You might want to make a small fat32 partition on it, for common file sharing. (I wish I had.) It was very easy to set up using the Pro disk set, except I could not figure out how to choose the file system, and had to default to Reiser, which has not given me any trouble. I have had my problems using Linux--most likely my own fault--but installing it was not one of them. You can read xp files from Linux, and there is supposed to be something that will read Reiser f/s from xp, but you may not be able to write to xp from Linux, altho there is a $69 program that claims to be able to. (Found with Google--don't remember the name.) --doug