Hi Malcolm, > > How exactly did you get Linux to co-exist with Windows XP ?
No rocket science there. I reduced the space needed for XP on the disk (it came configured with 2 partitions + 1 "hidden" one, with recovbery files on it, which I junked pretty quickly, since it aso came with CDs/DVDs with drivers). I did this under windows itself, though. Then I popped in a DVD that I got after downloading & burning the corresponding .iso file from the Suse website. The DVD is bootable and just goes into the opensuse setup routine. It sees the free space, proposes a sensible confiiguration (one "swap partition", one for the root directory and one for the "home" directory, whilst leaving the windows ones alone) and installs linux. That's it. Pretty anticlimatic, I thought. Everything works, even the hotkeys to make the screen brighter/dimmer. the laptop is about 2/3 years old, pentium M 1.7 Ghz, 512 MB ram. Nothing special apart from that, it worked from day 1 until now without a problem. I've had at least 3 laptops and only had one single problem with one (the screen backlighting broke, after about 3 years' use - repair was not expensive, I can't remember now how much). I still use normal computers, though, when I can. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
