Installing Linux, a dual boot system with Windows and Linux

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NucleusKore

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Key in your root password (also called administrator password) and click next

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You will now be shown an overview of system wide changes that are going to be made and what is going to be installed.

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Click on Booting. As you can see there is a tick mark against OpenSUSE indicating that it will boot automatically in case you do not make an OS selection in 10 seconds at the time of booting. In case you want to make Windows the default select windows and click Set as Default, and click OK. Else leave it as it is.

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You will be shown an updated overview of system wide changes that are going to be made and what is going to be installed.

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Click Install, and in the popup dialog box, Install.

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You will be shown your host name and domain name. Leave everything as it is unless you know what you're doing. Click Next

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The Network Configuration will come up.

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Click Disable IPv6. You'll get this warning. Click OK and click next.

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NucleusKore

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Click Next till you get the hardware configuration window.

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OpenSUSE will automatically probe your system and configure your hardware. Your screen may blank momentarily to configure your display, don't panic ! Just wait patiently. You can configure your printer from here.

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Click Next, and then Finish.

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Enjoy your OpenSUSE Linux!!!
 
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NucleusKore

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Installing the GAG Bootloader

This may be difficult for first time users who have no idea on command line usage in dos or windows. If you are familiar with the cd command to browse directories then you may proceed with Method 1, else use Method 2.

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE by default use the GRUB bootloader which is again, by default, written to the first sector of your hard disk, a location for the Master Boot Record (MBR). If anything happens to this boot record because of a virus attack or a system bug your system simply won't boot. Updating Ubuntu or OpenSUSE over the internet, updates (especially kernel updates) sometimes mess up the boot loader because of wrong entries or pointing. You'll find enough of these instances in the official forums. This can be avoided if you put your GRUB bootloader in your / partition instead of your MBR. In your MBR you can install any third party bootloader like GAG as I have described below. This is optional and if you are happy with GRUB you need not install GAG. If you want to learn more about GRUB go through this wonderful article.

Install GRUB to your root partition. In a terminal type

grub-install /dev/root_partition

where root_partition is your root partition, and press ENTER. An example: if /dev/sda7 is your root partition, just type:

grub-install /dev/sda7

Close terminal

Download GAG from here

*www.mediafire.com/?q1hhft5azyi

You can also get the latest version from here
*gag.sourceforge.net/download.html

Save it on your linux desktop.

Installation Method 1:
Right click on the file and select Extract here. Open a terminal and browse to the folder using the cd command. In that folder enter the linux folder using the cd command.

At prompt type

sudo ./copy-file.sh

and press ENTER

Then type

sudo ./gag-install /dev/sda

and press ENTER. If this does not work (in OpenSUSE), type su and press ENTER to become root, and then type

./gag-install /dev/sda

and press ENTER.

Restart your PC

Installation Method 2 (EASY):
Right click on the file you just downloaded and select Extract here. Open the folder, you will find a file cdrom.iso in it, write that file to a cd using the default cd writing software in linux (simply double click on it and burn). Restart your PC and boot from the cd.


Whichever of the above you have followed, you will now get this screen

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Press 4 to install GAG. You will get this screen next

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Select your keyboard (usually 1 in India)

then your language

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You will then come to this screen. press S to setup the bootloader

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The alphabets you have to press to execute a function are highlighted in red in the GAG set up screen. Keys are case insensitive. Press A to add an operating system

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As you can see, partition A is the floppy, B is the first windows partition, so press B

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You will now have to type a name, say Windows
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You will have to now type a password, optionally, so press ENTER to avoid giving one
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You now have to select an icon, Press C for windows
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Now you will come back to this screen
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Press A to add an operating system

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Now if you remember the first partition you made was swap, so that's D, followed by /, that's E over here (refer the partition table in your notes). So press E (in this example).

You will now have to type a name, say Linux
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You will have to now type a password, optionally, so press ENTER to avoid giving one
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You now have to select an icon, Press D for Linux
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Now you will come back to this screen
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NucleusKore

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Press H to save in the hard disk, you will get this message, press ENTER

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Press R to return to the main menu, you should see this

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Extra options in the setup include setting a timer for a default OS to boot.
Read the index.html file in the docs folder of the gag file you downloaded.
All the best !!!
 
Faun

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awesome, openSUSE looks way better than Ubuntu.
Am tempting to install it over Ubuntu now, as am using Arch mainly *s269.photobucket.com/albums/jj44/visio159/Unismilies/23.png
thanks for this nice tut.
 
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NucleusKore

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Using OpenOffice 2.4.0 :)
That's one of the lesser known features of OpenOffice. Even in OpenOffice 1.4 we had the option of exporting our files as pdf and swf !!
All we have to do is type our document and click the pdf icon in the openoffice writer toolbar
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Cool G5

Cool G5

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Openoffice has a one click PDF export. Very useful feature.

And again awesome tut nucleuskore. :)
 
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thewisecrab said:
n00bish doubt
How to burn that iso file to make it a bootable CD?????
Reply please ASAP
Click to expand...

You can burn any ISO file in

Windows - by using the burn image to disc option in your cd writing software
Linux - using burn image to disc option in K3b, or brasero or any other cd/dvd burning program
 
dreams

dreams

Gracias Senor
I have a similar query here..I have a laptop with 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM.

I have partitioned my HDD into 4.

I have installed XP first in C drive.
Then installed Vista in D drive.
I have stored all my data in E drive.
I have one empty partition F drive with a diskspace of 50GB. I have reserved this partition to install LINUX.

Now I have to install LINUX in my laptop in the F drive..I have UBUNTU 8.04 LTS Server edition dvd with me.

I have requested Fedora 9 too but yet to recieve it.

First let me know which one is best, Fedora or UBUNTU.

Second how should I go about installing either UBUNTU or Fedora in the F drive.

Will I get the boot loader with Vista, XP and Ubuntu or Fedora displayed??

Pls help me out.

Note - My HDD is SATA. Due to this earlier versions of Linux doesn't install.

T i A
 
thewisecrab

thewisecrab

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There are similar threads regarding this that are being discussed abot right now
Find them here:
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96603
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96544

Thanks NucleusKore
Posting from my Ubuntu now :D
Few doubts:
How to Use Compiz?
The flash player for FF 3.0 in Linux is not upto the moark
I mean, the videos are really jagged.
How do i fix this?
 
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NucleusKore

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thewisecrab said:
How to Use Compiz?
Click to expand...

Should be enabled by default. Go to Administration->Appearance and you can enable desktop effects from there,

OR pres Alt and F2 and type
simple-ccsm
and press ENTER

thewisecrab said:
The flash player for FF 3.0 in Linux is not upto the moark
I mean, the videos are really jagged.
How do i fix this?
Click to expand...

GO a system update and see. Also update your video drivers; if you have nvidia or ATi especially
 
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Rahim

Rahim

Married!
^The pdf tutorial doesnt open with evince (it crashes) while it open with ocular in opensuse
 
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