11.1 and Vista SP2

[mctoon]

My laptop is dual booted with the above,,, if i had my way it would be all Suse but the Mrs needs M$ for work..

Anyhow, problem is,, vista SP2 is available but will not install

M$ quote this on there web page

When you install Vista SP2, the Vista SP2 installer must update the system boot files. If third-party disk management tools are used to "clone" disks or partitions, the SP2 installer will be unable to uniquely identify the correct system boot files.

Anyone know of a workaround,,i just have grub with suse on a seperate partition Cheers Mal

[syampillai]

Stupid M$ !!!
You have 2 options:
(1) Let Vista messes up you boot area and you can use the openSUSE recover CD to put back GRUB there. (Bit technical)
(2) Install Vista in a VirtualBox. (You can throw it away any time Also, you can take snapshots and back it up on some external media. This will be a huge help to your wife because she can always fall back to a running version of Vista.)

[caf4926]

You have to restore the vista boot code and make sure the boot flag is on the vista partition.
Your system will now boot vista seemingly as if no suse install exists. Allow sp2 to run then restore grub with the suse dvd.
What pain, but I wouldn't expect anything less from the 'Evil Empire'

[mctoon]

Cheers Fellas,, 1 snag i only have my ASUS OEM disc, so i cant restore the MBR with fixmbr or bootfec,, any ideas

[caf4926]

This should do it
Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download — The NeoSmart Files

[mctoon]

Cheers caf for the link,,,

might get it sorted about 3 weeks next thursday with the 2k torrent download speed

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by mctoon

Cheers caf for the link,,,

might get it sorted about 3 weeks next thursday with the 2k torrent download speed

Why so slow, are there no peers seeding. Does you torrent client work ok on other torrents?

[G0NZ0]

I downloaded that torrent 3 hours ago, just after caf4926 posted the link, and it took 4 minutes 32sec, to download 120 MB. If you have problems it must be some torrent settings or firewall. I am seeding it right now and there are plenty of other seeders.

BTW thanks a bunch caf4926 for that link, i did not know about that CD and can be really really precious!

[mctoon]

using utorrent, downloading at 3 k,, i have 8Meg bb connection,,, never used torrents before,,

i did dl it under suse using kget it only took a few mins, however k3b would not burn the iso so i tried utorrent under windows

[syampillai]

Originally Posted by mctoon

using utorrent, downloading at 3 k,, i have 8Meg bb connection,,, never used torrents before,,

i did dl it under suse using kget it only took a few mins, however k3b would not burn the iso so i tried utorrent under windows

Try the ktorrent under KDE. You should get much better speed than 3k!!