Installing SLED on XP & Ubuntu machine
 

Hi,

I am an XP convert and fell for Ubuntu (7.04) the moment I saw it on my my friend's laptop.Since then Ubuntu has been my primary OS. Recently I have heard some rave reviews about Suse Linux Enterprise Linux 10(SLED) SP1. I have now a terrible itch to check this distro.

But I don't want to disturb my existing setup esp. Ubuntu which I have customised with great patience & time.I have a 40 GB HDD. XP is on hda1(12GB) & hda2(19GB). Ubuntu is on hda5(1.3GB) & hda6 (3GB). 1.4 GB is for SWAP.

I want to install SLED on hda2. How do I do it? Can I have two Linux & one XP on the same HDD.

Pls help.

That's certainly possible. You'll need to select a custom hard drive installation setup from the SLED installer, but then all should work correctly.

I had ubuntu, xandros, knoppix and debian in the extended and was hoping to replace ubuntu with suse, but as ubuntu was hda7 i just deleted that partition then made a new one, guess what, wasnt thinking and it re-arranged the order, just edit(dont delete) the partition and format it for suse and it wont change the order...(well, shouldnt anyway)...
suse sled sp1 is a very sweet distro, i havent used suse much since 6.3 but am very impressed with it, and the desktop features are great...

My setup is a acer travelmate dual core(intel) with 80gb drive, partitions are hda1=50gb (win-xp, was vista, but it bit the dust) hda2=5gb (fc7), hda3 =5gb(fat32 storage, hda4=17gb (ext) hda5=using all of ext (suse)...using the grub boot loader with suse....

Thanks a lot! My worry is the 19GB (hda2) on which am planning to install SLED, there is already some data. So I would give 10 GB to SLED and leave 9GB as such & if I format it, Suse will erase the entire data on hda2.


Also I did a dry run with SLED installer, it located XP(obviously) but could'nt locate Ubuntu.

Aloha,
It might be easier to boot up your Ubuntu LiveCD, I assume thats what you have, or another LiveCD and use gparted to resize the 19g hda2. Then you will have free space to install SLED on. Be aware that you will need to defrag hda2 in Windows and virus check it, etc then back it up. Save that data! After that you should be able to put SLED on the new empty space. I am not sure if you are using GRUB but if so, don't install GRUB with SLED, once it is installed, mount that drive while in Ubuntu, the SLED drive, and copy the vmlinuz, kernel and systemmap files from /boot of SLED to the /boot of Ubuntu. Then copy the SLED main entry from the /boot/grub/menu.lst on SLED into the /boot/grub/menu.lst on Ubuntu. It may need a little tweaking but should work. I have Ubuntu and Arch booting at present and it works fine. Ubuntu, as far as GRUIB is concerned, is the root drive. Please post back so we can see how things go.
Mahalo,
Edward

Thanks:)! Will keep you surely posted once I attempt it.