Re: [Sheflug] SuSE and Win2K

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Steve Tickle <steve.tickle [at] softhome.net>: 
 
> I've just acquired a new hard drive for my home PC. I intend to dual boot  
> it between Win2K and SuSE linux. It's my experience that Windoze doesn't  
> cope well with any pre-existing OSes so I installed Win2K first. 
>  
 
Thats prbably best.  I dual boot xp/mandrake 9, win2k/Suse 8.0 and win2k/Suse 
8.2 on three boxes and installing Linux second has always been ok. 
 
If you installed Win2k 2nd you could boot into SusE from the CD or a rescue 
disk, and then fix it with grub or lilo after. 
 
> Does anyone know of any issues/problems I could expect to encounter when I  
> add linux? I've done this relatively painlessly on several Windows systems  
> previously but never on a Win2K system. 
>  
 
Not had any problems, except that if the win2k partitions are NTFS ( by far 
the best choice for them from a windows perspective) you'll only be able to 
mount them read only from Linux, AFAIK. 
 
AED 
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