Vista And Opensuse On Same Drive
 

Hi All,

I just brought a new pc with Vista on and want to install Opensuse and dual boot. There is already a spare partition on the hard drive and wanted to know is to resize this partition or to just delete it and use the whole partition for Opensuse?

Also.. What about dual booting?
Will Opensuse see Vista and install grub ok so I can select Vista or Opensuse?

I will be installing Opensuse 10.2 64 bit version.

Any other advice people may give me before I go to install

Thanks in advance,

Gordy

Well, if it's a new pc, you may have to brace yourself for some roughness. openSuse has trouble recognizing combinations of certain motherboards with Sata HDs. There are a number of workarounds but none of them appear to work universally. Personally, I had to retrieve an old PCI IDE controller card before it would recognize my optical drives.

I have Vista and SuSE 10.3A2 on the same drive and both are working normally. Actually i have dual boot Windows & SUSE since SUSE 10.0.

I've tried 10.1 and 10.2. I have one hard drive for linux, and one drive for Vista x64.

Grub installs fine on the vista hard drive, but then it fails to make an entry for vista for 10.1 or 10.2 (with an nforce4 mobo and SATAII WD HDD's)

I just go into /boot/grub/menu.lst and make an entry for vista like it says here. Everything works as it should.
Note that I enter "hd0,0" instead of "sd0,0" even though my drives are SATA, for some reason that's the only way it works.

Your setup might have to be set up differently, but I just wanted to add what my experience with dual booting vista/linux was.

I have Vista and OpenSuSE 10.2 on the same drive on different partitions. no problem up to now. grub works as with winxp and OpenSuSE 10.0 or 10.1.

Hello,
I have vista and opensuse 10.2 x86_64 on the same drive, they seem to get on with each other without problems. The boot parameter noacpi might help with SATA drive problems if you get them. I have had trouble with newer nvidia chipsets.

Cheers,
Phil