On 4/7/2017 7:43 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
rbowman wrote:
On 04/07/2017 07:24 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
I decided to try it out in one box that's kind of "extra" as a dual
boot with WinXP Pro - on a separate hard drive of course . Ran into
a formatting (?) problem early on in the install though , and
decided to come back to it later .

What file system were you using? OpenSuSE defaulted to btrfs and I had
nothing but trouble trying to get it to boot. I went back to ext3. My
former preference was reiserfs but i doubt Reiser is going to be doing
much further development from Salinas Valley State Prison.


I misspoke , it was a partitioning issue . I've been looking at the
instructions and it's not clear to me just what the problem is . I'll study
it some more later , no great big hurry .

If you have a separate hard drive, disconnect the XP drive and let desktop
linux have its way with the installation.
Every time I've tried to dual boot one drive, or two installed
simultaneously,
Grub Update borked my system eventually.
Keep 'em separate and they'll both just keep working.