Re: Setting up Suse dual boot with an XP NTFS partition

ngjunkie0011_at_yahoo.com
Date: 06/29/05 

Date: 29 Jun 2005 05:45:03 -0700

I currently don't have my laptop in front of me but when I get to it
I'll let you know. However, I have executed "fdisk -l" and I saw the
FAT partition where windoze is installed and I can see the 2 other NTFS
partitions and I've had no problem mounting them. I'm assuming "fdisk
-l /dev/hda" will report all space on the PHYSICAL drive and report the
3 gigs or so that are in the HD that are not being used up. More on
this when I get my claws on my laptop. -:)

Does anyone know if XP will boot up with an NTFS partition when dual
booted with Linux?

I still have XP on my machine installed on a FAT partition and will
probably still have it until I learn more about Linux for my every day
use and with the FAT partition is probably wide open for the whole
world to see, not that installing NTFS would make much of a difference
but it would be nice to have.

> I find SuSE to be amazingly painful due to a series
> of really unfortunate decisions they make in how to do package management

The only trouble I've had so far is YaST not correctly informing of
installed packages. I recently upgraded xine and installed the DVD
library so it can play encrypted DVD's and according to YaST there is
no xine on my box! LOL I installed rpm's using the command line and
they installed flawlessly, now I am able to watch all my movies on my
Linux Box! I'm a happy camper! I still will need to find a substitute
for the mp3 mixing eJay program that I have on my wintendo machine. If
anyone knows of a linux DJ mp3 mixing app please let me know!

My apologies if I confused anyone. I'm just beginning to use linux on
a daily basis and consider myself quite a newbie. I've been a wintendo
user for quite a while but now that I've seen all the power in Linux I
definetely plan on learning more and more. Did you know that you could
control the volume of your headphones and your laptop's speakers at the
same time? Meaning that you can still hear the speakers even after you
plug in your headphones. Try doing that in xp! LOL

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> <ngjunkie0011@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1120025833.046185.96810@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > I'm just wondering if it's possible nowadays to setup a dual boot linux
> > SUSE distro with xp booting from an NTFS partition.
> >
> > I just recently installed SUSE and it works great!! I'm impressed with
> > the GUI and my mp3's play like a charm, unlike the latest RD distro
> > that steered me away from linux.
> >
> > I had to completely erase everything in my HD and installed XP on a FAT
> > partition and then installed all of suse on the "/" partition. I have
> > 2 other partitions using NTFS for archiving purposes.
> >
> > Since linux can't write on an NTFS partition and I needed extra space
> > for my linux distro I shrunk 1 of the NTFS partitions and freed around
> > 6 gigs of space. I reinstalled SUSE and used up 3 gigs of space, now
> > the other 3 gigs are somewhere in my HD and don't know how to reclaim
> > it.
> >
> > Anyone out there with some knowledge on SUSE please give me a hand??
>
> Publish the contents of the command "fdisk -l /dev/hda" or whatever your
> drive is. That's a good place to start.
>
> > SUSE is a great linux distro, for those of you interested in linux and
> > fed up with spending your $$$ on wintendo software just to realize in
> > the end the software doesn't work as expected. I just began using SUSE
> > linux and it works like a charm on my laptop!!!
>
> Most of the Linuxes are. I find SuSE to be amazingly painful due to a series
> of really unfortunate decisions they make in how to do package management
> and software management, and believe that the YaST developers should be
> taken out to the field and actually forced to use their own tools to run
> anything other than a brand new desktop system in a network actually run by
> someone else.

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