Re: Dual booting: newbie help
- From: "ric" <publicmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Jun 2006 01:34:14 -0700
ac wrote:
ric wrote:perfect, sounds great: will have a go at this later.
Hi All,
I'm a linux newbie and I'm playing with Ubuntu and Suse 10.1 at the
moment.
I've a test client with Ubuntu installed, and I want to dual-boot
Ubuntu and Suse.
Is this easy to do? Can anyone give me some pointers on what to choose
during the Suse install to repartition the single drive into two
halves, put Suse on one of them, leave Ubuntu instact and allow me to
choose which one to boot into?
I have a demo PC with a number of distros and xpee.
I usually aim to create an unformatted partition in preparation for
the new install, and generally, the existing swap partition is readily
used for other linux distros.
If you have ubuntu on already, and then put suse on, it is easy. suse
has a nice gui and function in its installer (the partitioner). It
will suggest a new set of partitons sizes and arrangements during the
suse install. If you do not favour these etc you can abort the install
and later use other approaches or get more information etc.
I think ubuntu uses grub boot loader by default (?) and so does suse.
Suse will merge its boot loader into the existing. If it does not, it
is easy (I mean gui and clicky easy....)(this is where I am at) to get
suse to find the ubuntu boot details etc and do a good merge job. Even
putting ubuntu in second, it is not difficult, but ubuntu boot loader
has a text looking gui whereas suse has a pretty looking one :-)
So when I have installed (yet another) distro I re start suse and get
it to take ofver the boot loader envirionment last created by
whicherver distro was put in last.
Notes:
1) if you do not want to loose data, be sure to back things up first.
I have never lost data, but things can go wrong, even for experts.
2) When you are presented with partition data, take careful notes of
it, so you can make better decisions when installing a distro later.
If you dont have this yet for ubuntu, then just note the information
during the suse install process - and you can change it then if
necessary, accept defaults, or use custom, or even for some things (eg
shrinking a size) you can do it later on, after install and updates.
3) If you are thinking of multibooting with windoz too, is is easy as
long as you put windoz on first, then linux stuff.
4) be sure to read any notes, reports, options etc in the installs of
linux. I found such notes more significant in linux than for windoz,
and I really did have to read them!
have fun!
--
ac
i'm presuming that if i were to do anythign like whack XP on at a later
stage that it's boot manager would bugger up grub?
i'm tempted to use BootItNextGeneration to be honest, which is a
marvellous little OS-independant boot manager i've used in the past -
it's pretty idiot proof and would stop XP hosing anythign if i did
decide to put a copy of that on too...
.
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