[NTLUG:Discuss] SUSE dual boot installation

[Gilbert Morrow]

Good advice ,  just built my wife a Shuttle SFF 64bit AMD and I put
SuSE 9.3back on it for her , I have found that SuSE
10.0 GM has a known bug in it with the USB sync which will be fixed with
10.1(hope) , don't know why SuSE could not have issued a fix for it in 10.0!?.

I tell most people when they go to install SuSE along with XP to go into
Disk Management in XP and make one of the partitions free space so SuSE will
install there by default .

On 1/21/06, William L. Jones <wljones at waymark.net> wrote:
>
> I tried to install SUSE Linux 10.0 for dual boot with Windows XP.  It
> failed
> with an error message at the start of partitioning.  Instructions said to
> use
> Disk Scan and Disk Defragmenter before a dual boot installation.  There
> was
> no disk scan, so I tried Disk Cleanup.  It did not help.
>
> A report on Linuxgazette.net said to use chkdsk instead of Disk Scan.  I
> remembered this as a command for the command line.  Back to XP, call up a
> DOS
> prompt, and use chkdsk.  It found a disk error and asked permission to fix
> it.  I did as asked, ran Disk Defragmenter again, and SUSE installed
> without
> any problems.
>
> Please do not repeat my mistakes.  They make life frustrating.
>
> William L. Jones
> wljones at waymark.net
>
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