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I agree with Youngjan's excellent instructions. The preferrred method is to install M$ first since this installation will overwrite the MBR of the hard drive. Install openSUSE second and allow GRUB to detect the OS's on the partitions and configure the bootloader.
If you install openSUSE first, GRUB will only detect and configure this single OS. When you install M$ second, it will overwrite the MBR and you will not be able to boot into your Linux partition. BUT, in this case you should be able to use your installation CD/DVD to repair GRUB. There is a known bug in 10.3 that causes the Repair option to fail, but supposedly the 10.2 install media will repair GRUB in both 10.2 and 10.3 (I am merely passing on secondhand info, I have not tried to use a 10.2 media on a 10.3 install and this this might not be correct). On another forum I came across another way to repair GRUB:
To Dual Boot it is best to install Suse Linux than Windows.
If you go through numerous posts regarding this; it strictly discourages users from installing Vista after linux since Vista will not bother to add Linux to it's boot menu and will only overwrite Grub. Install VISTA first and LINUX second.
why wasting time with dual-boot systems since we have the year 2007 and excellent virtual environments?
I have a full stand-alone opensuse 10.3 system with virtualbox installed, running, winxp, win vista and all the other windows you can't see anything through*g
it's quite nice not having a "data" partition anymore, fat formatted or something like that, you can work without all the time booting... uptime 370 days... really cool...
I have just dual booted Suse Linux 10.3 and Windows Vista on my Laptop and the only thing that I have trouble configuring is the Wireless network card. The Laptop has a built in wireless card and I have a external Dlink express card.
I have just dual booted Suse Linux 10.3 and Windows Vista on my Laptop and the only thing that I have trouble configuring is the Wireless network card. The Laptop has a built in wireless card and I have a external Dlink express card.
You may want to try the Ndiswrapper. It is not easy to make it work, but after days and days I managed to make my wireless card in my notebook work under Linux. There may be different threads for this though.
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