I have a multi-boot with openSUSE 11.1 and Mandriva 2009.0. Both are x86_64 and use KDE 4 [4.2 SUSE, currently 4.1 Mandriva]. I have available Windows XP 32 bit and would like to install it on available space on my hard drive. I’m looking for tutorials or How To’s on this. Any help greatly appreciated.
I hope this was correct place to post my request.
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I would really recommend just doing this with VMware… VMware server is
free and it will prevent headaches you will likely have if you install
windows now due to its taking over the master boot record (MBR) until
you manually put it back. Anyway that’s my opinion… if you have a
semi-decent processor and a bit of RAM you should be fine with a VM.
Good luck.
dwightpaige79 wrote:
> I have a multi-boot with openSUSE 11.1 and Mandriva 2009.0. Both are
> x86_64 and use KDE 4 [4.2 SUSE, currently 4.1 Mandriva]. I have
> available Windows XP 32 bit and would like to install it on available
> space on my hard drive. I’m looking for tutorials or How To’s on this.
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
>
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Hi,
dwightpaige79 wrote:
> I have a multi-boot with openSUSE 11.1 and Mandriva 2009.0. Both are
> x86_64 and use KDE 4 [4.2 SUSE, currently 4.1 Mandriva]. I have
> available Windows XP 32 bit and would like to install it on available
> space on my hard drive. I’m looking for tutorials or How To’s on this.
> Any help greatly appreciated.
ab@novell.com wrote:
> I would really recommend just doing this with VMware… VMware server is
> free
Or rather the really free (as in GPL) VirtualBox OSE, inluded in openSUSE.
http://en.opensuse.org/Virtualbox
Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger
You could always ring the Microsoft support line, I’m sure they will be very helpful ;).
…but seriously, with 2 Linux distros on 1 disk that means that you will have an absolute minimum of 3 partitions already used, 1 for each distro plus 1 shared swap).
Not a problem if you have only 3, as 4 (primary) partitions is the maximum possible and you could create the last (4th) one and install it there.
You can do that in the Windows install process easily enough (from my memory of installing XP!), when it asks where to install, don’t just keep pressing enter, but create a new partition using only the free space left on the disk.
If you have all 4 already assigned, then it can be done, but it means juggling partitions and maybe having to re-installing distros as the partitions would be changed!
Plus Windows always overwrites the boot sector so you will have to re-install the boot loader after Windows has finished installing in order to get your Linux distros back again.
Thanks all for the replies. I seem to need to study on this before I proceed.
This isn’t quite true. It is true that you can only have 4 primary partitions, but you can create an extended partition (I believe it counts as an primary partition) that can contain as many logical partitions as you wish. You could do this via the partitioner tool in Yast where you free up space at the end of the drive, create an extended partition that has all the free space, then you can create logical partitions under the extended. If I remember correctly, the only problem is that some OS’s might have trouble booting from logical partitions, but this may have even been fixed in recent years.
I should say I have done this frequently, having logical partitions. I don’t recall really having a problem with it ever.
With that said, I would second the recommendation of virtualbox, but I would download it from virtualbox.org so that USB works. The OSE version does not have features that the version from Sun does.
Is it possible to install Windows on a logical partition? That’s where I have space for ntsf or whatever file system setup.
Is it possible to install Windows on a logical partition? That’s where I have space for ntsf or whatever file system setup.
Looking around a bit, it looks like XP with Service Pack 2 or Vista should be just fine. If you have older than that, try reading this:
Installing Windows on a logical partition - Sousuke.org
I almost always have installed Win first, then installed linux, so I dont’ have to deal with reinstalling grub. I have reinstalled Win and had to redo the Grub install, but only on a partition that already had Win (and was primary).
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Thanks, again for replies. What I did was remove Mandriva, leaving openSUSE only [that is where I put all data I needed to save] and repartitioning so I could install Windows on a primary partition. That worked except that so far Windows doesn’t recognize my Ethernet device so no Internet… Since then I now have a fresh install of Windows XP with no Internet, yet, and a fresh install of Mandriva. Unfortunately I also don’t have support CD for motherboard [ASUS MPV2-VM] close at hand and ASUS doesn’t seem to offer the opportunity to download such and I’m poor so I’ll wait until I can go to Mississippi and get my Windows driver/suppoort cd’s.
This is a 2003 install CD of XP but I am a little surprised it doesn’t recognize my Ethernet device as I haven’t run into that or even had to configure an OS for Internet for a while. Oh, well. Gotta be something. Thanks, again for replies. What I did was remove Mandriva, leaving openSUSE only [that is where I put all data I needed to save] and repartitioning so I could install Windows on a primary partition. That worked except that so far Windows doesn’t recognize my Ethernet device so no Internet… Since then I now have a fresh install of Windows XP with no Internet, yet, and a fresh install of Mandriva. Unfortunately I also don’t have support CD for motherboard [ASUS MPV2-VM] close at hand and ASUS doesn’t seem to offer the opportunity to download such and I’m poor so I’ll wait until I can go to Mississippi and get my Windows driver/support CD’s.
This is a 2003 install CD of XP but I am a little surprised it doesn’t recognize my Ethernet device as I haven’t run into that or even had to configure an OS for Internet for a while. Oh, well. Gotta be something.
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Sounds like a good setup overall… at least you won’t get viruses on
windows from the Internet… be grateful.
Good luck.
dwightpaige79 wrote:
> Thanks, again for replies. What I did was remove Mandriva, leaving
> openSUSE only [that is where I put all data I needed to save] and
> repartitioning so I could install Windows on a primary partition. That
> worked except that so far Windows doesn’t recognize my Ethernet device
> so no Internet… Since then I now have a fresh install of Windows XP
> with no Internet, yet, and a fresh install of Mandriva. Unfortunately I
> also don’t have support CD for motherboard [ASUS MPV2-VM] close at hand
> and ASUS doesn’t seem to offer the opportunity to download such and I’m
> poor so I’ll wait until I can go to Mississippi and get my Windows
> driver/suppoort cd’s.
>
> This is a 2003 install CD of XP but I am a little surprised it doesn’t
> recognize my Ethernet device as I haven’t run into that or even had to
> configure an OS for Internet for a while. Oh, well. Gotta be something.
> Thanks, again for replies. What I did was remove Mandriva, leaving
> openSUSE only [that is where I put all data I needed to save] and
> repartitioning so I could install Windows on a primary partition. That
> worked except that so far Windows doesn’t recognize my Ethernet device
> so no Internet… Since then I now have a fresh install of Windows XP
> with no Internet, yet, and a fresh install of Mandriva. Unfortunately I
> also don’t have support CD for motherboard [ASUS MPV2-VM] close at hand
> and ASUS doesn’t seem to offer the opportunity to download such and I’m
> poor so I’ll wait until I can go to Mississippi and get my Windows
> driver/support CD’s.
>
> This is a 2003 install CD of XP but I am a little surprised it doesn’t
> recognize my Ethernet device as I haven’t run into that or even had to
> configure an OS for Internet for a while. Oh, well. Gotta be something.
>
>
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