Suse dual boot with Fedora

anthonyt · 10-28-2005, 02:17 AM

Have any one install Suse 9.3/10 with Fedora together on one machine?

Is it possible to do so? And any experience sharing?

Jongi · 10-28-2005, 02:47 AM

I've done it. What about it do you want to know?

anthonyt · 10-28-2005, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jongi
I've done it. What about it do you want to know?

Which one to install first?
And how to deal with the MBR, boot file e.g. grub etc.?
Any conflict?

For Suse,
Is it easy to access the floppy, cd writer, usb drive?
Does it automatically update the packages?
Can it use RPMS to install package other software?
Is it, like Fedora, a full function and free OS (not evalation)?

Thank you very much!

reddazz · 10-28-2005, 10:31 AM

You can install either one first. You can then use grub to boot both operating systems. Suse 10 eval and Suse 10 OSS are full OSes and there are no limits to using it. Suse is an rpm based distro has a tool called YAST which has an option for automatic updates etc. You could have got this info by visiting the Suse site.

Jongi · 10-28-2005, 12:50 PM

Yeah I installed in this order XP, SUSE then FC4. After I had installed FC4, I booted off the SUSE install disk and repaired the bootloader from there. All 3 boot without issues.

SUSE has been quite easy to setup for me in terms of floppy, DVD writer and USB devices. Personally as you will see from my signature, SUSE is much easier. It is still a week after I installed FC4 and I still cannot connect to the internet from it. Whereas with SUSE it took no time at all.

AndLinux · 11-23-2005, 05:02 PM

I have installed Suse 9.3 and after a FC4 in another partition ( on a pc with Windows installed in a 3rd partition).
When I try to boot the FC4 the system halt and give an error related to the partition where Suse reside (wrong magic number..).
Could be related to Suse file system (reiserfs) while FC4 is ext3?

Someone can help me? Thanks in advance.

Keruskerfuerst · 11-24-2005, 12:16 PM

When I try to boot the FC4 the system halt and give an error related to the partition where Suse reside (wrong magic number..).
Could be related to Suse file system (reiserfs) while FC4 is ext3?

This is strange. Fedora Core supports reiserfs as well.

as root: fdisk /dev/"your harddisk" and check the partitions id.