[SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE

[John Ziriax]

Roy,

Thanks for the suggestion. That's one of my favorite solutions, and
the reason, or so I tell myself, that I download and burn so many
distros. And, I think that was tried out of desperation with some of
the systems. We were limited by the needs of the class which required
RH9, so we were mostly stuck with RH9 and FC 1 & 2. We did set up on
Compaq laptop with Knoppix because none of the RH distros would the
keyboard.

In a prior installfest, I put Libranet 2.7 on a laptop and it worked
quite nicely, finding almost all of the hardware and adding lots of
laptop tools.

Our biggest problem was that this hit us on several computers with XP
(all HPs and a Sony) at the same time. We were not prepared as I don't
think many SATLUGGERS are running XP. I had read the warning about FC2
and XP when it came out, but had forgotten it by the installfest.
Plus, and this is the part that confuses me, the fixes for that
particular bug did not work!!

John

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:45:39 -0500, Wrkwatchr <wrkwatchr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I had a similar problem with my HP Pavilion ze4400. I fought and fought
> trying to get a dual boot with XP and RH9. I did all my reading on the
> internet and discovered several recommendations that were similar...disable,
> this, change that kind of recommendations. All of these were to no avail.
> After several days of significant aggravation, I persevered and finally in a
> users group reply that I found I discovered someone who had successfully
> accomplished what I wanted to do...almost. Basically, I discovered my laptop
> was not RH friendly, but it was SuSE friendly. I tried SuSE 8.2
> professional, and it installed easily and has been working without a hitch.
> My recommendation is that if RH/FC isn't working, try SuSE or other Distros
> until you find one that works the way you want.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Roy
> 


-- 
John