Installing Linux, a dual boot system with Windows and Linux

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You will now be shown an overview of system wide changes that are going to be made and what is going to be installed.



Click on Booting. As you can see there is a tick mark against OpenSUSE indicating that it will boot automatically in case you do not make an OS selection in 10 seconds at the time of booting. In case you want to make Windows the default select windows and click Set as Default, and click OK. Else leave it as it is.



You will be shown an updated overview of system wide changes that are going to be made and what is going to be installed.



Click Install, and in the popup dialog box, Install.

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You will be shown your host name and domain name. Leave everything as it is unless you know what you're doing. Click Next



The Network Configuration will come up.

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Click Disable IPv6. You'll get this warning. Click OK and click next.



Click Next till you get the hardware configuration window.

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OpenSUSE will automatically probe your system and configure your hardware. Your screen may blank momentarily to configure your display, don't panic ! Just wait patiently. You can configure your printer from here.



Click Next, and then Finish.



Enjoy your OpenSUSE Linux!!!

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This may be difficult for first time users who have no idea on command line usage in dos or windows. If you are familiar with the cd command to browse directories then you may proceed with Method 1, else use Method 2.

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE by default use the GRUB bootloader which is again, by default, written to the first sector of your hard disk, a location for the Master Boot Record (MBR). If anything happens to this boot record because of a virus attack or a system bug your system simply won't boot. Updating Ubuntu or OpenSUSE over the internet, updates (especially kernel updates) sometimes mess up the boot loader because of wrong entries or pointing. You'll find enough of these instances in the official forums. This can be avoided if you put your GRUB bootloader in your / partition instead of your MBR. In your MBR you can install any third party bootloader like GAG as I have described below. This is optional and if you are happy with GRUB you need not install GAG. If you want to learn more about GRUB go through this wonderful article.

Download GAG from here

gag4_10.zip

You can also get the latest version from here
Download section

Save it on your linux desktop.

Installation Method 1:
Right click on the file and select Extract here. Open a terminal and browse to the folder using the cd command. In that folder enter the linux folder using the cd command.

At prompt type

sudo ./copy-file.sh

and press ENTER

Then type

sudo ./gag-install /dev/sda

and press ENTER. If this does not work (in OpenSUSE), type su and press ENTER to become root, and then type

./gag-install /dev/sda

and press ENTER.

Restart your PC

Installation Method 2 (EASY):
Right click on the file you just downloaded and select Extract here. Open the folder, you will find a file cdrom.iso in it, write that file to a cd using the default cd writing software in linux (simply double click on it and burn). Restart your PC and boot from the cd.


Whichever of the above you have followed, you will now get this screen



Press 4 to install GAG. You will get this screen next



Select your keyboard (usually 1 in India)

then your language



You will then come to this screen. press S to setup the bootloader

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The alphabets you have to press to execute a function are highlighted in red in the GAG set up screen. Keys are case insensitive. Press A to add an operating system



As you can see, partition A is the floppy, B is the first windows partition, so press B



You will now have to type a name, say Windows



You will have to now type a password, optionally, so press ENTER to avoid giving one

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You now have to select an icon, Press C for windows



Now you will come back to this screen


Press A to add an operating system



Now if you remember the first partition you made was swap, so that's D, followed by /, that's E over here (refer the partition table in your notes). So press E (in this example).

You will now have to type a name, say Linux

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You will have to now type a password, optionally, so press ENTER to avoid giving one



You now have to select an icon, Press D for Linux



Now you will come back to this screen



Press H to save in the hard disk, you will get this message, press ENTER

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Press R to return to the main menu, you should see this



Extra options in the setup include setting a timer for a default OS to boot.
Read the index.html file in the docs folder of the gag file you downloaded.
All the best !!!