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Flanjeuk:
hello,

ok so...
I have XP on a 120GB HDD and I have a spare 80GB HDD that i want to install SUSE onto and dual boot them both, basically how do I? step by step so I don't kill my computer. (and no, I don't want to try a live version, I want a full installation please :)


Thanks'
John.

sam:
firstly have you used linux before? / installed an OS before?

Firstly make sure that you have backed up everything on your windows disk, but I bet you have already done that.

Secondly turn off the computer and restart it with the SUSE disc one (which version of SUSE do you have?) in the drive, you have to make sure that you have set the BIOS to boot from CD.

Once this is done Grubb should load and ask you about installing, make sure when you are installing you choose your 80GB HDD and that you dont remove any windows (smb) hard disk partitions. Once you have defined the 80GB as the hard disk you want to use (depending on the version of SUSE) it will setup the partitions  for use with linux automatically.

It will now ask you to setup the tools you want to install, if you are unfamiliar with Linux I'd suggest you go with the defaults (maybe selecting KDE and have this as your default interface). Follow the onscreen steps making sure that Grubb is setup to give you an option of booting windows or Linux (it should be default but worth checking).

Hope this is of use.

You might also want to take a look at: SUSE INSTALLATION PAGE

Flanjeuk:
thanks for the quick response :)

I have never used linux in my life. (I'm still currently downloading 9.3 Prof)
(can't wait for my blueyonder free upgrade to 10Mb!!)

I've installed XP a million times, because something always goes wrong eventually ;)

about backing up, I never really bother because I dont have very much on it thats not got a disk (eg, its mostly games)


Thanks again.

sam:
good luck, hopefully this and the link will do the trick.

I'm sure you will like linux and SUSE is probably the closest you can get to windows, if you use KDE that is.

As for reinstalling XP your damn right there, though saying that in 4 years (or so) of use I have only had to reinstall XP 3 times! not bad really. saying that though, I've never had to reinstall linux (unless changing distribution).

As for backing up, well just be careful make sure you have thought of everything. The number of times I have forgotten to backup my bookmarks and then lost them all...

Flanjeuk:
ok, so i installed it but something isn't right

it boots up fine but when the desktop comes up its like really really low resolution and you can hardly read anything, and half of the picture is missing off the screen. I can see blurred icons and the SUSE logo in the top right corner. the mouse works but i can't see a pointer, i can just guess where it is a click.

any ideas?

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