Re: Suse 8.2 Installation and Other questions

From: mjt (mjtobler_at_removethis_consultant.com)
Date: 09/22/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:15:19 GMT

Ankit wrote:

> 1. What precautions or points should i note before installing SuSE 8.2 on
> a machine which already has windows 2000?

jot down all info about your system (h/w, etc) and be prepared
to answer those questions, if need be. if it were me, i'd also
jot down the horiz and vert frequency ranges for the monitor
(just in case). beyond that, you should be fine.

do some quick research about the h/w you have - that way you
can alleviate any problematic h/w BEFORE installation. for
example, you want to be sure the NIC card is supported.

what i do, before attempting an install (of say suse), i use
knoppix(.com), boot from [its] CD and check what it has
detected, h/w wise, then i jot everything down.

> 2. Is it possible to partition the 80 GB harddisk into two and use one
> partition for windows and the other for linux? How should I
> partition/format the drive for optimum usage?

yes, you can do the partitioning during the install process or
you can do it before, using fdisk.

> 3. The most important question - I need it such that I can transfer data
> between windows and linus effortlessly. I have seen that i can map the
> windows drives through linux, but is there a way that i can see the linux
> drives on my windows desktop or windows explorer?

create a fat[32] partition for data sharing (so that Linux
can read/write this partition - do NOT use NTFS)

during the install, suse will detect the partition and add
it to the list of partitions to mount (in /etc/fstab), and
you should get an icon on your desktop for it
. 

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