Hi, i am new… I had dual boot win 7 and win xp, when i tried to install suse over win xp partition (i choose to format that partition during installation suse). I dont know how but suse keept win xp, and make 4 new partitions. After that i had to format whole hd, couse with partition magic i could not find that 4 partition. Now i install win 7 and win xp again, but i want to install suse instade of xp. Is that possible or. Is there option to install suse. So i would have l 3 Os, i have laptop. Are 3os slowing comp.? Thanks
I dual boot openSUSE and Windows 7 all of the time. Windows 7 will often create two (Primary) Partitions, one small booting one and one large partition for all of Windows except for the boot. When you load Windows, make sure to leave 40-80 GB free for openSUSE to install. openSUSE will suggest to create three partitions, a SWAP, a root / (ext4) and a /home (ext4) partition. Two for Windows and Three for openSUSE means you will need five partitions. You can only have four primary, but one of those can be an extended partition. An extended primary partition is just a container which can contain one or more logical partitions. It is OK to create all of the openSUSE partitions as logical (Partitions will be numbered 5 and up), but you must decide where to place the grub boot loader. The most common way of doing that is to load grub into the MBR (Master Boot Record). So, you might end up with something like this:
MRB loaded with Grub by openSUSE
- sda1 - Windows 7 Boot Primary Partition
- sda2 - Windows 7 Primary Partition for the rest of Windows
- sda3 - Extended Primary Partition Container
- sda5 - Linux SWAP 4 GB logical partition
- sda6 - / root EXT4 20-40 GB logical partition
- sda7 - /home EXT4 20-40 GB (or more) logical partition
Notice that there is no sda4 partition in this example which would be normal. Does this explanation help you any at all?
Thank You,
You can have a max of 4 primary partitions. One of which may be an extended. In the extended you can have many more, at least 15, logical partitions. Opensuse takes a minimum 2 partitions, swap and root. But the default is to have 3 swap, root and home. Having a separate home allows you to more easily save you personal data and settings.
You will need to use the expert mode to setup configuration since you want to use the XP partition for at least part OS. You will want to remove the XP partition and replace with the 2 or 3 ( your choice) partitions needed for Linux. If you intend to have more then 4 partitions one needs to be an extended and additional partitions can be placed in that.
oh now it is harder for me. ok i have question, if i format xp partition (50gb), do i have to install suse in expert mode, or i can do it automatic, couse i dont understud this thing you said with partition. If not can you said me step by step what to do.
oh now it is harder for me. ok i have question, if i format xp partition (50gb), do i have to install suse in expert mode, or i can do it automatic, couse i dont understud this thing you said with partition. If not can you said me step by step what to do.
If you boot from a live CD and deleted the 50 GB Windows XP partition (or do so in Windows 7) and then try to install openSUSE, you may not have to make manual selections, but consider you need to know what is required so that you might not accept a suggested configuration that does not work.
Thank You,
On 2011-02-15 04:36, gogalthorp wrote:
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> You can have a max of 4 primary partitions. One of which may be an
> extended. In the extended you can have many more, at least 15,
At least thousands >:-P
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Thanks a lot, i will try it 
Is there any chance to install opensuse only in one partition? Beacouse, every time he made 3 partition. Sry for a lot of stupid questions, but it is very hard, and i am noob…
On 02/19/2011 06:36 PM, miodrag7 wrote:
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> Is there any chance to install opensuse only in one partition? Beacouse,
> every time he made 3 partition. Sry for a lot of stupid questions, but
> it is very hard, and i am noob…
>
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it is best to have three…that way you can update the basic system
(which is in one, named “/” for root) and not disturb any of your
personal data or configuration (in another named “/home”)
the third partition is tiny and named “/swap” you never see it or mess
with it
it is possible with the installer to force /home to be on / (root) but
it is not advised…it is also not advised to not have a /swap
perhaps you should spend some time reading about partitions:
http://tinyurl.com/ybpbryk
http://opensuse.swerdna.org/
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Is there any chance to install opensuse only in one partition? Beacouse, every time he made 3 partition. Sry for a lot of stupid questions, but it is very hard, and i am noob…
The short answer is yes, you can install openSUSE in one partition and use a swap file instead of a swap partition.
You may think this will make things easier, it won’t.
With 50GB I strongly recommend the suggested 3 partitions /swap, /, and /home. Linux is not windows.
On 2011-02-19 18:59, DenverD wrote:
> it is possible with the installer to force /home to be on / (root) but
> it is not advised…
Right.
[pedantic mode start :-p ]
Exception: when space is very limited, or if it is a test or rescue system
(it will not store data).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I like to use Gparted LiveCD for my partitioning.
This documentation is a little dated but it works for Win 7:
GPARTED DOCUMENTATION - GENERALITIES
GPARTED DOCUMENTATION - RESIZING
Most of us prefer to use 3 partitions, created in an extended partition. like the one shown by jdmcdaniel3](http://forums.opensuse.org/members/jdmcdaniel3.html) in Another problem with partition above. When / (root) , /swap and /home are on the same partition if you have to reinstall or reformat that OpenSuse install everything in your /home will be lost unless you’ve backed up everything. With /home on a separate partition would not need to be reformatted, and you could replace OpenSuse with another distro keeping the files left in /home.
Pls post output from
fdisk -l
enclose the output with [foo][/foo] replacing the word “foo” with “code”.