Howd' Suse Run On This

[Dude500]

I have an old Dell Insiprion 8100 laptop. I was wondering how'd it run with windos XP as a dual boot. Here are the specs. Pentium 3 900MHz. Nvida graphics card, Geforce 2, I don't remember the rest of it. The rest of it is integrated into the MB. It has ethernet and USB support and some other stuff. So I was wondering if Suse 9.1 would run on it ok. Using a full desktop like KDE or Gnome. Or which desktop would be faster

[aliov]

In principal Suse 9.1 is enough for your computer,
about wish Desktop is faster actually the XFCE desktop (i mean a utile Desktop, sure you have others like xfwm,windows maker). but you can run gnome or KDE without problem with your 900 MHZ CPU.

Hope this help

[Dude500]

OK thanks, but I still had one question, would it be ok to dual-boot with windows XP, I don't want it to screw anything up.

[devils casper]

OK thanks, but I still had one question, would it be ok to dual-boot with windows XP, I don't want it to screw anything up.

yes. go for dual boot. create free/unpartitioned space and select 'free space' in Partition section during Installation. installer will create/format partitions and setup dual boot.

[Dude500]

One more thing I don't want it to mess anything up. So will it be ok to partition it without anything going wrong.

[devils casper]

yes. resize/shrink existing partition with GParted LiveCD. its one of the best partition manager.
if you have any confusion, execute 'diskmgmt.msc' at command prompt in Windows. Disk Management Tool window will pop up. post existing partition structure here.

[Dude500]

I had one other question, would it be possible to run linux and windows at the same time

[devils casper]

I had one other question, would it be possible to run linux and windows at the same time

yes. you can run Windows or Linux in Vmware. check this thread.

[Dude500]

OK, thanks for all the info

[gogalthorp]

One thing you did not say was how much memory you had. I recommend all the memory you can stuff in to that machine. You really need 512 meg minimum to run Windows on Linux under VMware server. I run it every day but when I had only 1 gig installed I found there was a lot of swaping and things could become slow for a few seconds. I put another gig in (now 2gigs) and windows runs as smooth as if it was on its own machine.