I finally

[Ice-9]

got my new WD harddrive and set up Suse 8.0.
It went as smooth as I've ever seen an OS install.
Geforce3, Terratec soundcard, both my Intel NIC's, everything detected and almost nothing to configure manually.

Now I just have to get used to the file manager
 
It's mostly after reading the posts of the regulars around here that I decided to go for it, so thanks all ...... and erm, tips are alays welcome  

[Calum]

you're welcome! you are a lucky bugger though, my laptop has done nothing but fuck up in a million irritating ways since i got linux. Actually that's a lie, it was fucking up at least as much when it was windows only... hmmm.

Welcome to the fold, ice...

[voidmain]

File manager? What's a file manager?  

[Ice-9]

Well it seems I have a problem after all, lucky that I can still boot in Linux now  
I decided to reboot my system just to see if the resizing of my Win2K partition didn't fuck up and my system wouldn't boot Windows :/
I restarted in Linux and where in my previous session I could see a Windows dir with files in it, the dir is still there but empty  
I still have some stuff to retrieve from that partition (fat32), anyone an idea?

[voidmain]

How did you resize your Win* partition? And what type of partition is it (FAT/FAT32/NTFS)?

[Ice-9]

The partition is Fat32 and Yast2 resized it automatically to 17GB (coming from 40) ext3.
Weird thing is I was able to access files in that dir before I rebooted  

[Ice-9]

Just ignore the "ext3", it's the journalling system I chose, nothing to do with my Win partition.

[hoojchoons]

That's funny. I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 as well but haven't had any problems with my Win partition yet. Did you partition manually or let YAST2 do the whole job?

[Ice-9]

I let Yast do the whole job.

[voidmain]

I think I know what your problem is... Do you mean you can't see the windows files when booted in Linux?  Sounds like your Windows partition is not mounted. "/windows" would just be the mount directory. Open a shell and type "mount" which will list what partitions are mounted.  Then to mount your Windows partition you would "mount /windows" (or use whatever directory is your Win partition mount point). Also, not being familiar with SuSe or Yast I would be willing to bet that Yast has a graphical mount utility that will set up the partitions that you want to mount and weather to mount them at boot time.

[ June 03, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Ice-9]

Ok, thanks, did that and now I can see the files from Linux.
Gonna try a reboot now to see if Winblows loads.

[voidmain]

That won't effect which operating system boots at boot time. That is the job of the boot loader (LILO or GRUB). If you are having a problem where Windows isn't available on your boot menu you need to change your boot loader options. Yast should also be able to do this (again, I have never used Yast so hopefully someone else can take it from here).

[ June 03, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Ice-9]

No luck, system halts on a black screen saying "Loading Windows"  
I let it sit there for a few minutes and nothing happens, Windows is listed in LILO, it just doesn't load.

[hoojchoons]

Do you have any documentation from SuSE available? Did you buy the distro or just downloaded it?

[Ice-9]

I bought it and I'm currently reading the manual to see if I can find anything helpful in there but so far no luck.
I also checked the partitions in YAST and everything is listed correctly, except maybe that my Win2K is listed as Win95 Fat32 partition.