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w00tb0ts quick and easy guide to dual booting.
First pop in the XP cd.
Then when it prompts you to setup the partitions, you create a 50gb windows partition, (leave the rest alone).
Then install windows.
Boot windows and finish setup
Shutdown windows, pop in the first Suse disk and reboot.
When Suse asks you to setup partions create your primary partition and and your swap partion in the free space (Swap is like windows pagefile, I recomened one and a half time the amount of ram you have, so if you have a gig of ram make a 1.5gb swap file.)
[Leave the windows partion alone during this step]
Install Suse in the Linux partition you made.
At the end of the instalation you will be prompted with a few configuration windows dealing with root (like admin) passwords, users, time, and network settings. Fill these all out.
One of these windows will be a boot loader windows. This is where the magic happens.
It will ask you to install the boot loader (most likely grub) in the mbr, do this after you have chosen wich OS you would like to boot primarily, and other boot options.
Make shure that windows XP is recognized by the boot loader
[All these options can be changed in the grub.conf or lilo.conf file later] if you use another boot loader then it most likely will tell you where that file will be located on this boot option screen.
Finish the linux install.
Remove all disks and reboot
Wait where is my Linux!!!
Just be patient there is more to do.
When windows boots, right click on the taskbar and select properties.
Select view administrative tools.
Goto administrative tools
select computer management.
select disk mangement.
Select the Linux partition, then right click on it, and select mark this partion as the boot partition.
Reboot and your linux boot loader should appear and ask you which OS to boot. If you are here then you are done.
If not post here and I can help you trouble shoot.
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