Re: Dual boot on Sata 300gig

Gordon Darling wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:32:23 -0400, Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 :) wrote:

PaulRS wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:01:44 UTC, "Blattus Slafaly œ ¾ 0/00 :)"
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wrote:

I can't seem to get this system up. I install Windows 2000 on the
first partition fine. Then install Opensuse 10.3 on the extended linux
partitions A swap of 2 gig, root 20 gig and home 178 gig. When I go
to the grub menu and select windows, windows crashes with a corrupt
drive blue screen. It worked on my other systems but this one does the
same thing 3 times now. Used yast to redo the boot loader and same
problem. Used 2000 disk to fix the MBR then the system boots windows
immediately but still crashes with corrupt disk. Somehow Opensuse is
corrupting my NTFS partition. Anybody else install dual boot on an
SATA drive?
I was having similar trouble with a large SATA drive and found out that
you have to have the win2000 partition less than 132GB (or 130
something). This is because by default W2K large drives is not set in
the W2k registry when installing. After it is installed you can do the
registry thing and then increase the W2K partition if you need to.
Mine appeared to install correctly also but the went blue screen on
reboot. The problem with me was the above and NOT SuSE
Paul
W2K wouldn't let me make a partition larger than 99 gig anyway. When I
reinstall W2k it trashes all the Linux partitions too after reformatting
the original 99gig. Well, screw W2k this is going to be an Opensuse
exclusive drive.

If you really want Win2K you might consider VirtualBox

I'm using VirtualBox on OpenSuSE 10.3. My Windows XP virtual machine "boots" in 15 seconds. If I save a "snapshot" using VirtualBox (rather than shutting down from within XP) the "saved state" boots in 5 seconds to the XP desktop with apps still running.

Sound, shared folders, shared clipboard, auto graphic resize (1280x1024) if I run it full screen, all working. Haven't played with USB storage yet as, if you don't take care, you can have a conflict between the host and guest operating systems both trying to grab the USB port.

"Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/
Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria."

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Regards
Gordon

This looks good. Thanks.

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