[Gloucs] Gloucester, Presario, SuSE

[Dave Elliott]

Paul,

  Thanks for the extra info - As I said, I guessed that I hadn't done it
quite right, but by that time I was in repair mode which was successful but
messy. I haven't needed to do it again, so I couldn't be sure exactly what
to do, but hoped my mistakes might give John some useful clues.

The way I did it, PM actually selects grub, which then goes through the
usual SuSE 'count up' screen - a somewhat eccentric sequence but it does
mean I can still play tricks associated with grub's configuration, which
appeals to my warped sense of fun. (Also making a boot floppy wasn't an
option in my case - no floppy drive .....)

Am I right in guessing that your suggestion will boot Linux directly from
PM? (Which is probably what most people would want!)

I also hate these 'user-friendly' restore discs which are always
troublesome - even for machines only running Windows let alone adding Linux
etc.

Regards
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paul cooke" <paul.cooke100@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk>; "Dave Elliott" <daelliott@iee.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Gloucester, Presario, SuSE


> 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...
>
>
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