Re: Re: How would I remove SuSE Linux on a dual boot system with

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"Sparda" wrote:
> Upon reevaluation of your prediciment, i think what you are
> wanting to to is dule boot XP and SuSE cohesivly. What you
> need to do is install XP FIRST!!!, thats very important, and
> use the partion menu in XP to set up the partioning you want.
> Then, once XP is instaled and running happily, begin
> instalation of SuSE, SuSE (been a most excelent product)
> should automaticly detect that windows is installed and
> automaticly configure dule booting for you, so every time you
> turn your computer on, a nice colour full menu apears asking
> whcih OS you want to use. By default it will boot SuSE after 8
> seconds, so you may wish to look for the boot manager config
> dure in instalation and set windows to default IF YOU WANT.
> Also, if YaST gets it right, you should be able to access your
> windows partion from SuSE, but READ ONLY, in other operating
> systems (such as FreeBSD) reading NTFS partions is extremly
> experemental, since microsft dont like to help open source
> developers work cohesivly with windows. In SuSE reading NTFS
> partions is quite safe, but you CANOT write. Not even if you
> are SU'ed.

Ye, if you are going to eedit your partion tabel with out using
partion magic (whcih in my personl opinoion is anoying and crap) then
you are going to lose all data on the drive. for this you WILL have to
reinstall BOTH OS?s. My Current standing is that i have an 80GB HD,
whcih i have partiond so that it has 38(ish)GB X 2 partions, one is
NTFS and otehr is RASIER (for SuSE) and 1GB for SWAP (SuSE vertual
memory) which works very well, plenty inof space for SuSE and windows
:D
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