I recently purchased a laptop that came with Suse Desktop 10 “pre-installed” on it, I just had to configure a few settings on the first boot and there it was ready to go. I was supplied with a DVD also.
I always intended to configure a dual boot with Windows XP and from all my investigations, the “best” way is to install XP first and then Suse.
The problem is that when I install Suse from scratch with the DVD on the laptop (not a “restore system”). the install doesn’t seem to work as well as when I choose a restore. (I can’t seem to download/install updates, the resolution doesn’t seem to be configurable. But when I choose a restore, it doesn’t allow me to partition the HD and leave a partition for XP.
So, my question is, what is the best way to Partition my HD for an install of XP after Suse 10 has been installed.
I know that the XP install will cause a problem with the MBR that means I may have to fix grub…
the current setup of the HD is:
/dev/sda 149.0 GB
/dev/sda1 1.8 GB Linux swap swap K
/dev/sda2 9.5 GB Linux native / K
/dev/sda3 137.6 GB Linux native /home K
I know that this is a long post… but any advice would be appreciated and I hope I have been clear above.
This /dev/sda 149.0 GB is your entire hard drive. The remaining is the detailed partitions under your hard drive.
This is your swap partition. Similar to the Windows paging file or virtual memory. /dev/sda1 1.8 GB Linux swap swap
This /dev/sda2 9.5 GB Linux native / is the root partition. Similar to C:\ under Windows.
This /dev/sda3 137.6 GB Linux native /home is your home partition. Similar to Windows Documents and Settings.
Now, what I would do is copy certain information to a backup cd. Things like Xorg.conf and your network information. Being that it came pre-installed, there maybe specific drivers and customizations that the DVD may not pick up.
Once you have those, then you can begine to partition your drive.
Windows must go first.
However big your Windows partition is, you will have to subtract that from your root partition. I wouldn’t shirk home.
That’s pretty much it.
Course it might help if we had the specs of your system. Keep in mind you can always edit files.
I’m wondering if the release is so old that there are no updates in the repositories (Desktop 10 can mean 5 different releases).
So:
What is the Suse version? You can get that with this console command:
Hi
I’m guessing it’s SLED, if so then it will be the secrets files that
are not present on a clean install, without those it won’t authenticate
to the update server.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 1 day 3:10, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.15, 0.10
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.22
Malcolm, if the secrets files are copied off, then Suse is installed (say on sda 2 and 3, after xp goes on sda1) can the files then be put into the new Suse install and give access to the repos?
Having said that, if the OP can login to their novell account
(customer center) and see the system. It also displays the activation
code used by that system to register, ‘My Products’-> systems and
double click on the device name. Else the ‘My Products’-> mirror
credentials has the username and password to use along with the list of
urls to be used.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 1 day 7:26, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.30, 0.21
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.22