Re: WinME & SUSE 9.1 on same PC

From: James Knott (bit_bucket_at_rogers.com)
Date: 06/27/04


Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:52:51 GMT

Larry Roberts wrote:

> I'm a Linux newbie here, so be kind. I just tried the SUSE
> Live CD, and it seemed to work better than Mandrake's Move CD. Reading
> some post in Mandrake's newsgroups, and in here, I see a lot of ppl
> where unable to boot into Windows after installing Linux on the same
> machine.
> Since SUSE does not use a FAT32 partion, so I was thinking of
> installing it on a second blank HDD. I'd like to keep my WinME as the
> primary booting OS while the SUSE Linux OS would be an alternate boot.
> Would installing SUSE like this cause any problems?

All you have to do, is make space for Linux and the install should do the
rest. When you're done, you should have a boot menu, that allows you to
select the desired OS. I've done that many times.

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