Help to install Fedora and Suse(dual boot) along with win vista

[vikram.jagan]

I have a HP DV6000z custom made laptop.
The conf details are
120 GB Sata Hdd
2GB DDr Ram
Nvidia Gforce Go7200
Builtin webcam
A/B/G wireless card with bluetooth

I have Win vista home basic pre configured in the laptop.

I used vista boot pro to resize the partition.

I resized the hard disk space to install suse linux.
It worked fine.

Now I had kept some free space for installing fedora core 6.

When I installed fedora core 6, the boot options were giving me only 2 options, either fedora or windows, the suse option was not visible.

There were some problems with display as well in fedora.
The alphabets for menus werelooking garbled.

The worst part was that it was not booting completely(i.e halfway through, it would stop booting)

Then i read somewhere that fedora needs to be installed first, and then suse..
So i formated the linux partition and installed fedora first.

The same display problems existed in fedora, but luckily windows remain intact..


Can someone tell me, how do I go about installing fedora core 6 along withsuse.

Now i have re installed suse 10.2
i have 25 GB free space for fedora.
I have win vista as it s...


I also would need help to install nvidia graphics accelerator in suse.

And wireless card..a/b/g with bluetooth too


vikram.jagan@gmail.com

[devils casper]

Fedora installer doesn't recognize other installed Linux distros. you have to add an entry of SuSe in Fedora's grub.conf file.

[vikram.jagan]

Devil's casper..

How do i do it?
what entries do i make, and how?
where would i find the files to update.

any suggestions, why the display is not good?

[devils casper]

which Linux Distro is booting up right now?
install Nvidia driver for best Graphics performance. check this link.

[vikram.jagan]

Devil's Casper,

Thanks for your reply.

currently I am using Suse 10.2
I had installed fedora core 6, but now i removed it.
I have 25 Gb free space to install fedora core.

And hey can u help me in installing oracle XE in my suse as well?

I will post all details if u can help me out.
In fact I have posted the request in a different post.

[devils casper]

install Fedora Core's GRUB in MBR ( its default ). Fedora Installer will not recognize SuSe. after installation, mount / (root) partition of SuSe and open /boot/grub/menu.lst file. copy 'title, root, kernel and initrd' lines. open Fedora's /boot/grub/grub.conf file and paste those lines.

you can use SuSe's GRUB too but you have to write Fedora's entries in its menu.lst file manually. there wont be any grub.conf file in Fedora for copy/paste.

i haven't installed Oracle in Linux yet. i will check that thread though.

[ruudsach]

how did you partition vista laptop
is that boot pro
where do i find it?

[vikram.jagan]

Hey..

You can download vistabootpro...
the latest version from here..

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[valemon]

how did you partition vista laptop
is that boot pro
where do i find it?

I suggest you have a look at Parted Magic and GParted -- LiveCD for partitioning

[devils casper]

One should use Vista Partitioning Tool for creating new partitions. Its pre-installed in Vista.