How To Dual Boot Win Xp And Suse 10.2 Without Making Troubles ?
 

:confused: Hi to everyone!

I have always been very found of pc and videogames and always been using microsoft oses since ms-dos 5.0 (1991 !) until 2005 when i dual booted win xp and mandrake 10.1,a fabulous os until the hard disks died...

Now i wish i could make a win xp/suse 10.2 dual boot but before installing i'd ask a little help from the community for not doing troubles,for work-i am a medical doctor-i need to use SPSS and SAS, medical databases similar to excel and running on win,the old versions i used on mandrake ran very very bad under wine so i HAVE TO KEEP WIN XP bootable without problems-and for games too...-

I have this pc now:

AMD 3500 64 BIT
ASUS A8N SLI DELUXE
2 GB RAM
GE FORCE 6600 GT
SOUND BLASTER LIVE 1024 24 BIT

3 SERIAL ATA HDS SO PARTITIONED:

-HD 1 200 GB: (NTFS )

1:WIN XP BOOT PARTITION OF 50 GB
2:NORTON GHOST IMAGES
3:GAMES
4:MASTERIZATION
5:RUBBISH
6:SWAP FILE

-HD 2 160 GB: (NTFS )


1:DOWNLOADS AND BACKUPS HD 2 PART 1
2:DOWNLOADS AND BACKUPS HD 2 PART 2
3:DOWNLOADS AND BACKUPS HD 2 PART 3

-HD 3 300 GB: (NTFS )

1:DOWNLODS AND BACKUPS HD 3 100 GB PART 1
2:DOWNLODS AND BACKUPS HD 3 80 GB PART 2
3:30 GB FAT 32 FOR SHARING FILES BETWEEN WIN AND LINUX

AND SO 70 GB OF FREE SPACE[/SIZE][/COLOR]

I WISH I COULD INSTALL SUSE 10.2 WITH KDE AND GRUB ON THE 70 GB OF FREE SPACE OF HD 3 AND USE THE 30 GB FAT 32 FOR LINUX BOOT IMAGES FILES...

I AM RIGHT ?

SO HOW SHOULD BE GRUB MENU CONFIGURED TO BOOT WIN XP AS DEFAULY OS?I NEED TO KNOW IT TO AVOID EVENTUALLY BOOT WIN XP PROBLEMS..

PLEASE ANSWER ME,EVERYONE'S HELP IS VERY ,VERY WELCOMMED!


THANKS TO ALL YOU ! THIS FORUM IS FABOULOUS !

Making XP the default is very easy: you just need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. One of the very first lines in that file is like this:

default 0

This means that GRUB will always boot OS number 0 (i.e. the first one from the list - GRUB starts counting from 0 instead of 1) . Now, If you want it to boot the second OS from the list by default, you would simply adjust that short line to look like this:

default 1

That's it.

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