It means that Vista partition will be shrunk. But the rest of the information there is not conventional (normal).
First thing you should do before shrinking a partition in windows is to defrag it.!!
It is generally recommended that you free up space on the disk from within Vista so that when you boot the suse dvd you are presented with a disk have a Vista Partition and possibly a Vista Recovery Partition and One section of free space or partition.
Whilst I have myself done all the shrinking and partitioning from Suse, it is not the recommended way. But, now you have the free space Suse may propose something a little different from your above quote. Nevertheless, I would manage it myself and click the 'Create Partition Setup' button under the partition based choice - then 'Custom Partitioning for experts'.
But - if you like, see what it proposes first, it should look something like this:
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mount point for Vista recovery
mount point for Vista
Create Extended Partition (this will be the total size of your free space)
create swap partition /dev/sda? 1GB?
create root partition /dev/sda? 20GB?
create home partition /dev/sda? 50GB?
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The extended partition is really just like a container for the items underneath it.
You might find it helpful to look at this
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Consider making a backup of your important data, especially if you don't have recovery disks (recovery partitions are about as much use as a chocolate fire guard).