Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?
alex wrote:
If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an
installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding
and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard
drive is properly partitioned?
Depends on the model of computer and what version of Debian you intend
to run. If the computer is recent it may well not run a Debian Woody
system without a lot of fiddling (kernel, X/video, network, etc).
But you can extract a lot of useful config information from the SUSE
system :) Another thing to try would be to see what configuration
Knoppix comes up with. Both SUSE and Knoppix are a lot easier to set up
than vanilla Debian IMHO.
Ryan Mackay wrote:
> However! To install the additional OS'es would require you to wipe
> your exisiting SuSE install or otherwise find a partition resizer that
> can handle ext2/3 filesystems.
Well SUSE uses reiserfs by default, but in any case, fdisk or cfdisk can
resize the partitions as required. You can also look in yast if you're
more familiar with that than command line tools.
Cheers, Dave
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