[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk digest, Vol 1 #505 - 11 msgs

[Marian Routh]

On Mon May 13 2002 12:17 pm, techtalk-request at linuxchix.org wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:43, Jim wrote:
> > Does any linux person know how to install Suse Linux and retain
> > Windows xp
>
> I think this belongs on techtalk, not issues.  Please send further
> replies there.
>
> What type of partition did you use for XP?  If you used an NTFS
> format for XP, SuSE can't resize it to make room for SuSE.  The
> safest thing to do is to add an additional hard drive for Linux.  If
> you have multiple partitions for XP, move the data off one of them
> and use that one for Linux.  I don't know if there are any tools that
> work on the NT file system available elsewhere you could use for
> resizing the NT partition. I am not familiar with XP.  I just know
> what my SuSE manual tells me.

Yes, the best thing is to add another hdd.  I have 4 in this box: one 
for WinXP Pro using NTFS (which I hardly ever boot into now!), one for 
shared data using FAT32, another NTFS one for games, and the fourth is 
SuSE 8.0.  I installed SuSE after I already had the XP drives set up.  
Just install LILO into the MBR and it will show Windows in the boot 
list.  Choose Windows and get XP's boot.ini, and then it's a normal 
boot into XP.  Like silk.

Cheers,

Malke
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