[Glastonbury] Re: Dual boot

[Terry Anderson]

Can I just say that Suse 9.1 works seamlessly with a dual boot (XP) 
installation and it couldn't be easier and less trouble free
On Saturday 29 May 2004 16:25, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 09:11, Sean Miller wrote:
> > >From reading some material a day or two ago the problem with Fedora Core
> > > 2
> >
> > is not that Windows gets damaged (mis-information!! no doubt propogated
> > by Microsoft) but that the partitions are reported incorrectly, hence the
> > grub/lilo bootloader ends up pointing to the wrong place...
> >
> > More of an annoyance than a really serious problem, though I think a few
> > wrists should be slapped at Fedora HQ... GNU/Linux does not need bad
> > publicity like this.... it is likely to put people off dual-booting,
> > something that we cannot afford to do... most "novices" are far more
> > likely to take the step to dual boot than to wipe windows entirely and
> > replace it with a distro....
>
> It isn't just Fedora 2. It also seems to occur in Mandrake 10 and SUSE
> 9.1 (basically anything with a 2.6 kernel).
>
> For more info see the May 17 entry here:
>   http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
>
> I think it is pretty serious though. Most people won't know how to
> recover their Windows partitions.
>
> Damon
>
>
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