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Installing SUSE 9.1 with Windows XP already on computer

post #1 of 4
9/6/04 at 11:38pm
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Forgive my noobieness, but i am so confused on what i should do when it comes to repartitioning my hard drive to install SUSE 9.1, basicly what i am saying is how can i install SUSE 9.1 on my laptop while keeping all my data and dual boot between XP and SUSE or will the default installation setting do this for me? Sorry, im just so confused.
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post #2 of 4
9/7/04 at 12:34am
I don't know what partition manager SuSE's installation CD uses, but you can use Knoppix's LiveCD and the 'qparted' application to resize the windows partition.

Take a look here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...42#post1063642.

He did what you want to do, but notes that the partitioner that comes on SuSE's CD cannot handle NTFS (which is what you probably have). So, I suggest you:

(1) download/burn Knoppix onto CD. You can get this from http://www.knoppix.com/.

(2) shutdown most programs within windows, then defrag the entire partition.

(3) boot up with Knoppix, run qparted, and resize the NTFS partition to the size you want

(4) reboot the computer, boot up with SuSE's install CD, install on the new blank partition you created using qparted.

(5) I don't know if SuSE will automatically add windows as an entry. If it doesn't, follow the advice given here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._21087521.html. You may have to change '(hd1,1)' to wherever windows is currently installed.

This procedure should work for you. It seems that you have never installed linux before so I STRONGLY suggest backing up all important data (programs can always be reinstalled). Then, you are free to tinker around with this. It will take some time, but it's worth it.

If you have any more questions, just post them here.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #3 of 4
9/7/04 at 11:38am
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Thanks man that helped, however i already have tryed Knoppix and i like it alot, thats why i am considering permantly installing SUSE 9.1, but i have heard that it's 2.6 kernal which is in alot of distros has problem with windows and partitions so i don't know what to do. If you resize the partition using Knoppix that will prevent the dual-boot problem people are having?
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post #4 of 4
9/7/04 at 4:53pm
the biggest problem with linux and windows is that linux has NTFS read, yaay, but the write support is still experimental, so if it were me and needed read and write support i would reinstall windows under a fat32 partition.

my biggest problem with linux and my laptop is that the wireless card has almost no support in linux .

hope this helps, if you want a long winded explanation as to why ntfs is so hard to have write support in linux let me know.

oh an to your dual boot question almost all linux distros especially suse, mandrake and fedora all use the LILO or GRUB boot loader, which loads xp fine.
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