Hey guys,
Could someone help me with my partitioning? Here’s my issue I’ve got an 80GB SATA drive and a 320GB IDE drive, I’ve already installed Windows 7 on the SATA drive. 80 is too small (in my opinion) to dual boot openSuse and Windows 7. Can someone explain me how to use a partition from the 320 IDE to install openSuse, and how to setup grub so I wouldn’t have any problems booting to Windows?
Thanks
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I would use 2 x RAM to swap, 20GB to / and the rest for the home
partition, YaST should detect the Win7 installation and add the entry to
grub
VampirD
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Okay thanks for your input, I’ll try it now and reply in a while
Actually, I just completed a Windows 7 dual boot
system on an 80 gig drive. Partition #1
is 30gig, and Windows7 only uses 39%. That
leaves plenty of space for Office 2007
and any other apps. If you are doing video
with Win7, you might consider keeping
your video data on the second drive instead.
And build the first drive dual boot with
Win7 and Suse 11.2. In my opinion it is
good practice to keep the OS and data
in separate places anyway!
My partition layout is below.
On my system these are the
mount points and Win7:
1 = Win7 NTFS
2 = /boot
3 = swap (2x memory)
5 = /
6 = /fat32
1 PRIMARY 30001.0 NTFS/HPFS 39%
2 PRIMARY 3000.0 LINUX 4%
3 PRIMARY 8000.0 LINUX SWAP 10%
4 EXTENDED 35306.9 46%
5 LOGICAL 18002.5 LINUX 24%
6 LOGICAL 17304.4 FAT32 23%
Your key is BIOS boot settings. Get it so the IDE 320GB HD is the first HD in the boot order
Install SUSE to that HD and install grub to the MBR of that HD.
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