Quick question about Dual-booting

[Byan]

I just got a new HDD.., I want to have XP and SUSE on a Dual-boot..., do I just install XP then SUSE and the booting sequence will take care of it's self(like if I installed 2 different versions of Windows) or do I need a third party booter?

Thanx in advanced,
Byan

[Daufuski]

It is not that simple and from my experience, it's a pain to have XP and Linux (I use Peanut and maybe that's the problem). I would just make a bootable floppy for the Linux install and avoid most of the headache. I think Lilo and Grub are the two most common boot loaders.

[Train]

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...+a+Dual%2Dboot

Lots of links.

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

I ran SuSe and XP as well as Fedora (and most of the others) with XP with absolutely no problems whatsoever.. Mind you, I had XP installed on c: drive and I installed Linux on a separate harddrive after..

Linux loaded its own bootloader that I was able to configure as to which OS I wanted as default.. Again, went slikck as can be.. And it is THAT SIMPLE !!!

Murray

[vaibhavkapoor]

Hi,
You need to first install XP on drive C, after that you can install Suse on Drive C or on another drive, the linux bootloader will takecare of everything else.

Regards,
Vaibhav Kapoor