In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Hi Malcolm, > >> >> How exactly did you get Linux to co-exist with Windows XP ? > >No rocket science there. > >I reduced the space needed for XP on the disk (it came configured >with 2 partitions + 1 "hidden" one, with recovbery files on it, which >I junked pretty quickly, since it aso came with CDs/DVDs with >drivers). I did this under windows itself, though. > >Then I popped in a DVD that I got after downloading & burning the >corresponding .iso file from the Suse website. > >The DVD is bootable and just goes into the opensuse setup routine. >It sees the free space, proposes a sensible confiiguration (one "swap >partition", one for the root directory and one for the "home" >directory, whilst leaving the windows ones alone) and installs linux. >That's it. >Pretty anticlimatic, I thought. > >Everything works, even the hotkeys to make the screen >brighter/dimmer.
Umm ... that does seem anticlimatic ... :-) ... you mean the Linux installation just detects what space it has the potential to use and just installs itself there ? -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
