On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 02:44, John N. Alegre wrote:
My main concerns with laying SuSE 9.1 Pro over the Red Hat distribution that is on there are two....
First overwriting of the MBR and losing GRUB and there by not being able to boot Windoze, and second getting the XFree86 to come up. Once I get there configuring the rest of SuSE is no problem. I did have had the problem of the MBR overwrite happen on an old Red Hat 6.x install. I don't remember how I fixed it but I remember it was hell
Anyone have any experience here??
I have a triple boot system. Two linux distros and Windows XP which I need for medical programs that won't run on any emulator. I have two linux distros one to work and one to experiment. Previously the work was Red Hat 9, and Fedora 1 was my experimental. I switched to Fedora to work and then I installed Suse 9.1 where Red Hat 9 previously lived. The insallation of Suse 9.1 pro was virtually flawless, but it only included the XP and Suse in the boot options when it installed GRUB. I had to manually add the Fedora boot commands (from the fedora grub.conf file) to the Suse menu. It did not cause any problems with windows XP booting and SAX2 helped me reconfigure the display and synaptics touch pad without much fuss (the installation display was OK but not quite right. And what is great is that the ACPI worked out of the box, no more problems with running out of battery power and I can now close the lid while the system is on without it crashing! I now work on Suse 9.1 and still experiment with Fedora 1. I have separate /boot, /, and /home partitions for both distros and a common swap. My machine is a compaq presario 2800 laptop with 30MB hard drive and 256Mb RAM. Gus.