mike wrote:
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.


I considered that ... instead I think I'll do this with the comp that's
currently hooked to the TV , it has only one drive and a pretty new XP
install so I don't have a lot of stuff on it . This comp is an old HP and
was a gift ("Just get it out of my attic.") and I really won't be upset if
I bork it up .
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