Re: Minimum System Requirement for Linux Suse

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:28:24 -0800, Arkentos wrote:


Douglas Mayne wrote:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:10:29 -0800, arkentoss wrote:

<snip>

Are you starting to get the point I was making in step 4 above? You can do it,
but are you sure you wouldn't like it done for you automatically the first
time?

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Douglas Mayne


Thanks

I've now some idea, regarding what i need to do before installing.
Thanks

One more thing i want to know,
I've Win XP on C: & Win 98 on D:, as you said win XP will be in boot
menu automatically upon detection by Suse installation,. but what about
Win 98, will it work well or i need to take some special care while
installing suse.

ThanX in Advance

Arkentos

Where did I say the WinXP will be on the menu automatically upon detection
by Suse? That very well may be a fact, but I didn't say it. I did say that
Suse setup may be able to do things automatically for you- if you want to
let it.

I did say, "Caveat: I am not using Suse."

Plus, I gave a few warnings, such as, that you should review the
documentation for the distro of your choice (suse). And, if you can't
afford to lose what is on your computer now, then it's your responsibility
to know what you're doing. Backup before you start, etc.

I'll add some more here:
Caveat: I am not running Windows XP. I am not running Windows 98.

The first thing you should do is to stop referring to your drives as C:,
D:, etc. Instead, create the partition table(s) that I suggested. You
can add a column which maps to a Windows drive letter assignment where
applicable. If you have more than one physical drive, then you'll need a
partition table for each drive.

I have never used Windows 98. I ran Win98 setup a couple of times to help
friends recover from virus infection. I didn't pay that much attention to
the loader. In a way, you already have a dual boot system, 98 and
XP. Do you know how these two interact to boot now? If so, then you
should be able to reproduce that behaviour with grub using its
chainloader command. For example, it's possible that Windows 98 is an
entry on Windows XP boot menu. In that case, you'd only need to chainload
to the master boot menu for Windows, which will continue to display the
existing menu choices.

Study the grub manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html

Or I wrote this shorter summary of some key commands:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/5a91c5ebd5c18911

BTW, I have tried to give you general advice, not tell you specifically
what to do.

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