[Lincs] Moving over to SuSE

[Saman]

Hey,

Yes - you can boot SuSE Linux from DVD (if you've got the DVD version).
Also, no need to get a third party application to format/partitions for
you. You can do all that during SuSE installation.

As I believe somebody else said, you don't need to actually
format/delete your Windows partition. You only need to have enough space
create the two meeded partitions ( / and swap).

Regards,
Saman

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 16:46, Lee Parker wrote:
> Dear Lincs LUG,
> 
> Thanks ffor your help.  However, I am waiting for the release of SuSE 9.1 and i am going to install that instead.  However, I do have some more questions, so please be patient with me:
> 
> 1)I am going to format my entire 250 Gb hard drive and use a third party utility to take the drive back to as near new as I can get.  It uses algorithms developed by the MoD to completely scrub the hard disk of data.  This will ensure no problems when installing Linux over a previous installation of Windows XP.  However, the software removews partition tables, master file tables and the registry.  Will I need a specific boot disk for SuSE or do I format my hard drive similar to DOS?
> 
> 2)Is SuSE bootable from DVD?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lee