[Gloucs] Gloucester, Presario, SuSE

[paul cooke]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:28 pm, Dave Elliott wrote:
> In summary, this suggests:
>  Load XP
>  Load PM, shrink NTFS partition, make any useful PM discs you can find, set
> PM to install SuSE
>  Install SuSE
>  Be prepared to 'resurrect' PM if necessary from the cd or floppy restore
> discs.

If you are intending to use Partition magic to do your OS selection at boot 
time then when you install SuSE... you _must_ make sure that you do not write 
the SuSE boot loader to the hard disk.

This is not immediately obvious and resides in the boot loader section of the 
install settings screen well down from the partitioning options and software 
package selection.

You must instead select the make boot floppy option instead and let partition 
magic do the OS selection for you. You will still be able to get into SuSE as 
you will have made a boot floppy, or can use the "boot installed OS" option 
when pretending to go through the installation again.


You will also discover that current OEM setups for XP put XP second on the 
hard drive after a small (2G) partition holding the restore image. This makes 
things very awkward when it comes to resizing the XP partition even with the 
aid of Partition magic. Even worse, the new Toshibas come with a restore DVD 
that just blasts a fresh image of XP over the entire disk wiping out any 
other partitions already on the disk.

Paul Cooke

-- 
someone who's done this the hard way...