Hi All,
I’m not new for Linux OS, but complete newbie for Suse 11.1. and Suse particularly. I have Packard Bell EasyNnote F0335-V-038 laptop (which came without any OS). I used Kubunty (KDE), Ubuntu (GNOME) and now Suse 11.1. – I’m pleasantly surprised of Suse’s functionalities and capabilities. Because of this I decided to keep Suse for now – to familiarize myself with the system and etc.
My final decision is to keep Suse on the HDD and add XP SP2 or 3 for games (I’m not convinced with the Linux capabilities in this field. I know that firstly I need to install XP – and then – Suse on the other partition. And here the problem comes.
Once I insert the XP SP2 disk in the drive – it didn’t load. Here are the performed steps:
Press any key to boot from CD (and I pressed something);
Setup is inspecting your current hardware configuration… (and it freezes here)
What I have is black screen – nothing appears, the lights on the machine are on. I left it like this for almost 1 h – nothing happened.
The disk is original – I’ve downloaded 2 more copies and burned them in case the disk is damaged or there is some problem with it. First copy is SP2 and second SP3 – both of them comes with the same results – suddenly it stops and I can’t proceed with the installation itself. (All CDs run fine on other machine at home).
File system on my HDD is ext3 (as far as I remember), but it shouldn’t be a problem with MS XP installation.
My question is: did somebody get the same issues with XP after Suse, or knowledge for similar problems with such installations? I opened few topics in Hardware/Software forums – but nothing so far. Please help.
You’d better ask this in a Windows forum. This error seems to be related to Windows. I already managed to boot Windows from CD after installing openSUSE.
Seems like you’re using an incompatible device.
PS: I’m just curious, how do you legally download a Windows CD?
I thought you bought the license to use software, rather than the physical media?
It’s a bit of a grey area, admittedly - but I’ve cracked games before just so I don’t have to leave the CD in the drive, and never felt there was anything illegal (at the very least immoral) about it.
The XP SP is legal – because I bought it long time ago. When it failed to load on my machine I downloaded 2 CDs from torrent sites – SP2 and SP3 – both gave me same error. Basically it means 3 different CDs with 3 different windows OS.
I suspect the main problem is ext3 format of the HDD. What I’ll try before go with other forum sites will be to format the HDD with linux distribution which runs fine on the machine into NTFS. I hope this makes XP run fine.
In case you find out something please post it here – this is getting very annoying to me…
Edit: Even if the copy is illegal it should stop me on the CD-key part – not in the very beginning of the installation process.
is your machine using a SATA hard disk?
if so i think your problem comes from the fact that XP doesn’t have this driver pached with so you have to install it you self
Its not going to be a SATA HDD problem as windows install would have displayed no hard disk found once you get to the partition manager of windows setup.
The likliest solution is that windows has detected the grub boot loader and can go no further, i found this when trying to install windows xp after i had installed suse 11.1 on my own machine.
Have you thought about using virtualbox inside your suse installation?
In my case i just removed suse by formating the drive, partitioned the drive in two, installed xp to one and suse to the other, the grub bootloader should then detect the windows install and add it to the boot menu.
I manage to run XP already. What I did was to start with Ubuntu CD I had at hand – completely format of the HDD and install of Ubuntu with partition with FAT32 system (I think here the problem was – there was no partition with MS FS). Then I ran the XP – it’s installing right now; I created 2 partitions – one for XP and second (NTFS) for the new Linux.
Assume the problem was in the file system and XP just did not find any place to load (as far as I know it requires some space to copy loading files).
