Re: suSE novice

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

Alex' solution below is one way but I'd do the following :

Boot using a boot floppy made from one of the images on the CD and run the
text-mode installation. You'll soon get to the "Start Installation" menu
which contains an item "Boot installed system". Select this and tell it
where linux was installed - assuming it's on the same disk as Windows this
is likely to be /dev/hda3 but could be different from this - it'll say so
& refuse to boot, so just try different values till you hit paydirt.
Likely values are /dev/hda3, /dev/hda4 and /dev/hda5.

Once up & running use Yast to configure lilo (unless you're happy to do
this yourself). You can make Windows the default boot OS by putting it
first. Yast should put in the correct / (root) path itself. 

Good luck, enjoy linux!


On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> > I came to the meeting today (thanks I enjoyed it).
> 
> Great - I went, had a lot of fun, saw some people I've not seen in a while.
> Ruediger's talk was a lot of fun, and I felt it had a lot to offer everyone,
> no matter what their expertise with Linux. We also had a little debate about
> the future of Linux, always good to have the newbies on hand to keep our
> minds on current matters & our feet on the floor!!
> 
> > Anyroad the thing is I have spent the afternoon installing suSE cebit the
> > evaluation version that "Rudy"?? gave away.
> > I set it up ok it seemed but as I also have windows, after I had played a
> > bit with suSE (sounds rude) <G>
> > I rebooted my system.It booted into windows without giving me a choice of
> > os.
> > What have I done wrong & what can I do to rectify this.
> 
> What hasn't happened is that lilo hasn't installed, for whatever reason.
> I've not actually touched the SuSE disk given out yet (I don't upgrade that
> quickly!!), so I can't say for sure what's happened, but it'll be one of two
> things: either lilo hasn't been configured properly yet, or it was installed
> to the wrong section of the drive. lilo (LInux LOader) is the piece of
> software that gives you the option of which OS to boot, and look hideously
> complicated the first time you try it, but really isn't anything to worry
> about.
> 
> Now, hopefully the SuSE installer hasn't changed, and you answered 'yes'
> when it asked you whether or not you wanted to install 'loadlin'?? Loadlin
> is yet *another* piece of software; this will load Linux from DOS, and SuSE
> usually put it in C:\LOADLIN\, or somewhere similar. There's a batch file
> there called 'linux', which you need to start like so:
>     linux hda3
> The option I've given it is 'hda3'; which is kind of like Linux's main
> partition on my system, somewhat similar to C: under DOS. However, it
> probably won't be hda3 on your system: depending on how many partitions you
> have, and in which order they are, will govern what the number on the end
> is. If you have more than one hard drive, the last letter (a in my case) may
> also be different. Anyway, all of this is of no use to you..
> 
> If you have just one DOS partition, Linux will probably be installed on
> hda2. So try 'loadlin hda2'. (If it doesn't work, you can always resort to
> trying to work out which number to use by using fdisk, or just by trying
> successive numbers until one works ;). This should allow you to boot to your
> linux installation.
> 
> What to do when you get there? Well, you can choose to do two things. You
> can decide that loadlin works well enough for you, and either create a DOS
> menu to choose between continuing to boot Windows, or just type loadlin ...
> whenever you want to use Linux. Alternatively, you can configure lilo. lilo
> can be configured fairly easily from YaST, or YaST2 - you can tell it to
> include options to boot to Windows, Linux, or any other OS you have
> installed. Then, you'll probably want to install lilo to the 'master boot
> record' - this just means, whenever you turn on your machine, you'll get the
> lilo: menu which allows you to choose between the different OS options..
> 
> Hope this all helps and hasn't confused you too much!!
> 
> Alex.

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