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  1. Posted

    Hi Danleff,

     

    U r right, there are a lot of solutions out there but if u think your solution will work then I will do what u tell me to fix the problem.

     

    As u mentioned earlier, I have a back-up HDD as a third drive for now but I still like to learn how to solve the problem.

     

    I would not like to install Suse on the drive with XP as I will not have enough space left on my HDD.

     

    I think booting linux from a floppy disk is a good idea (I can backup the floppy contents just incase it gets corrupted).

     

    Just tell me how should I go about doing it from the situation of dual boots that I have right now (previously described and updated in this reply).

     

    At some point I would like to know how to add Suse to XP bootloader but I like to create boot floppies for linux first.

     

    Please help.

     

    Sachin.

  4. Posted

    I am pretty new to installing Linux and this is my first dual boot installation.

     

    This is the situation of my dual boot so far...

     

    2 HDD's with WinXP on master HDD and Suse 9.1 on slave HDD....using GRUB. When I start the machine, GRUB gives me an option to select either Linux or Windows (with Linux as default OS). They both work fine but if I remove Linux HDD to bck up data from WINXP to a bckup hdd, all I see is GRUB on the left corner of the screen with no options of OS and I cannot go further than that.

     

    I would like to make WINXP as a default OS so that if I want to work on Linux, all I have to do is swap my data bck-up HDD with Linux HDD.

     

    This seems like a easy problem, I just do not know how to do it...please help.

  5. Posted

    I am pretty new to installing Linux and this is my first dual boot installation.

     

    This is the situation of my dual boot so far...

     

    2 HDD's with WinXP on master HDD and Suse 9.1 on slave HDD....using GRUB. When I start the machine, GRUB gives me an option to select either Linux or Windows (with Linux as default OS). They both work fine but if I remove Linux HDD to bck up data from WINXP to a bckup hdd, all I see is GRUB on the left corner of the screen with no options of OS and I cannot go further than that.

     

    I would like to make WINXP as a default OS so that if I want to work on Linux, all I have to do is swap my data bck-up HDD with Linux HDD.

     

    This seems like a easy problem, I just do not know how to do it...please help.

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