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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject: Dual Boot To A New Hard Drive

I have tried lots of Live CD's and have choosen Suse for my new hard drive.
I have Window XP on a hard drive and I want to install a second hard drive and put Suse 10.1 on it.
What's going to happen when I get the hard drive installed ?
Should I imediately stick the Live CD in and install right away or is their anything I should before hand ?
I Haven't found much info at the Suse site.

LWD Staff Joined: 15 Feb 2002 Posts: 1300 Location: USA

Have you decided how you want to dual boot your system? You can set it up in such a way as to let WinXP keep control of your booting (this is outlined in an article here at LWD). Or you can allow Suse to install Grub, and Grub will dual boot both systems for you.

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I had done a search in (OS - Linux) and didn't see exactly what I was looking for, but didn't even think about looking in the article discussions.
I'll give it a read.
I was thinking it would be nice to have WinXP boot up, at least at first, till I'm comfortable with Suse.

LWD Staff Joined: 15 Feb 2002 Posts: 1300 Location: USA

I followed that article to get my first install of Linux going a few years ago, and it worked nicely. Good luck! I think Suse is a nice distro to start out with. Suse uses Grub though, and that article refers to Lilo. It should still work fine though. Wherever the article refers to Lilo, remember that Suse will refer to Grub. (I actually like Grub better than Lilo anyway)

Here's the article, in case you can't find it http://www.littlewhitedog.com/content-52.html Razz