[SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE

[Robert J. Thomas]

Friends,

Have you considered using the Windows Bootloader?

I have used the instructions found at:

http://www.littlewhitedog.com/content-52.html

and have successfully installed Fedora Core 1 with Windows 2000.  I am
guessing that you could do the same for XP.  This might be a good
work-around for most any distro.

Best Regards,

-Bob T.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ziriax" <ziriax at gmail.com>
To: "Wrkwatchr" <wrkwatchr at hotmail.com>
Cc: "The San Antonio Linux User's GroupMailing List" <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE


> 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
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