Before I tryed to install openSUSE on my system I wanted to find out what I should do to do this. I have been playing around with Linux for the past 7 months and in that time i have been on Ubuntu the hole time. It was a nice intro to Linux but I think I really want to give openSUSE a chance.
I have been playing around with openSUSE today on a live CD and I really like it. It was so FAST! I had the desktop effects and everything running. It was just great!
I still want to keep my Ubuntu as that is what I use all the time but I could see myself switching.
How do I install openSUSE on my PC when I have Ubuntu already there?
When I installed OpenSuSE 11.0 onto my computer the OpenSuSE installer allowed me to resize my partition so that I could leave Windows XP on my computer and still put OpenSuSE onto another partition.
I would imagine it would do the same for you when you install OpenSuSE with Ubuntu. So give that a try.
Well, a few things need to happen. First, you should have freespace on
your hard drive, and preferably less-than four partitions on your drive.
You could also have a second hard drive which would be for OpenSUSE;
this second hard drive route would likely be the nicest situation if you
didn’t already have free space. Second, if you don’t have space you
need to resize your current partition(s) so you can get space. Chances
are Ubuntu took the entire drive (most operating systems do by default)
so this may be required unless you have a second drive for SUSE. Third,
I would recommend you do some testing as well as backing up before
making any kind of change like this. Usually Linux is very nice because
backing up your home director(y/ies) is all you need to do (/home) to
keep all your settings. If you have files of your own outside /home
then you should save those as well.
Post the output of the following command to get some additional input
(run as ‘root’):
If you have any /dev/sd* devices post the output for fdisk -l /dev/<device> as well for those. This should give us a good overview
of your harddrive situation. Chances are one of the drives shown will
be optical (CD/DVD) so feel free to point that out if possible. Having
the contents of your /etc/fstab file posted could also be helpful.
Good luck.
shanehill841 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before I tryed to install openSUSE on my system I wanted to find out
> what I should do to do this. I have been playing around with Linux for
> the past 7 months and in that time i have been on Ubuntu the hole time.
> It was a nice intro to Linux but I think I really want to give openSUSE
> a chance.
>
> I have been playing around with openSUSE today on a live CD and I
> really like it. It was so FAST! I had the desktop effects and everything
> running. It was just great!
>
> I still want to keep my Ubuntu as that is what I use all the time but I
> could see myself switching.
>
> How do I install openSUSE on my PC when I have Ubuntu already there?
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane
>
>
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