I am new to linux. I tried and failed. I need some help on Creating patitions (I think it is root, swap and home).
I have HP laptop with WIndows 7 installed. I have shrink the volume to allow Linux installation. I have three partitions, first one is windows boot - about 100MB. Second one is about 110GB and it has windows 7. Third one is UNALLOCATED space of 110GB that I intended for Suse.
Now I am going to install the Suse. The unallocated spaces should be “primary” or “extended”? Also, should I divided this new partition in to three partition? If does, what are sizes for each?
I want to learn Linux so I will able to look for better job. This is the first time I ever look into linux and confused.
I just did a dual boot with suse and win xp let suse manage the partition and tell it to use the UNALLOCATED section you have set aside for it and it should come off without a hitch however I have read on the forums some problems with dual boot using win 7.
The installer will handle the partitioninghttp://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse112/art_osuse_installquick_112/?page=/documentation/opensuse112/art_osuse_installquick_112/data/art_osuse_installquick_112.html for you
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While the installation program will probably provide a usable partitioning suggestion, that is not a 100% guarantee. Since it appears you a bit unfamiliar with partitioning, feel free to screen shot or write down the suggestion and post that back here if you want a double-check.
One detail to be sure about is whether you laptop has a recovery partition, which could be “hidden”. 100MB is not large enough for HP’s recovery image, so unless the HP recovery uses a DVD instead of a partition, the recovery image is somewhere on the hard disk entirely separate from Windows. Also, since the recovery image is a copy of the entire OS as it left the factory (i.e., requires a reformat to use), and installing another OS changes the disk structure and boot setup, I always advise having on hand a Windows “recovery disk” - you can get one at neosmart.net. (Very handy to have in general anyway for various Windows fixes.)
To your question re partition types: Windows supports no more than 4 primaries, of which 1 can be an extended (inside of which “logicals” are created). If you have a recovery partition plus 2 for Windows, then the SuSE partitions must all be logicals inside the 4th primary extended. If 2 primaries are still available, the best approach will be to install the root to the 3rd primary, make the 4th primary the extended, create a swap partition as the first logical, and then put /home in a second logical using however much of the remaining you wish to allocate to it (you might want to leave space unallocated for future logicals, for example, for a partition shared by SuSE and W7).
Hp comes with XP downgrade. I have to reinstall windows 7 because I cannot upgrade from XP. Therefore, I do a clean install and 100MB is the one windows 7 requires (I think the boot stuff goes here).
I will select the “extended” partition from the selection and go from there.
Hi all,
I could not get the installation going. When I start the custom partition, I can see all three partitions as I had in the windows environment. I took the last one and make it primary with 20GB only, then, I add the rest as extended. I could not edit the extended parition therefore I donot know how to make the logical “swap” and “/home”. Anyway, I am stuck.
I have remove the partition using the disk mangement utility from Windows and make it unallocated. Somehow, Suse always want to shrink my sda2 (that is my c drive).
I do get the chance and burned a Ubuntu cd and ---- their wizard does allow me to choose the third partition and not touch any of my existing 2. I donot go forward with the installation. But I am puzzling why Suse cannot have a better wizard as Ubuntu can.
ANyway, enough wining… HELP ANY ONE…I Still want to use Suse because it is one of major linux uses by enterprises.
Windows 7 does not require a separate partition for boot, nor does the installation default to doing this. If however a primary partition already exists and is marked active, it is possible W7 will use it. In any case, for a clean install and assuming there is no recovery partition, the recommended approach is to use the W7 installation to reformat the entire disk and then let it use that unallocated space as it wishes (with the intention to later down-size that partition, or if preferred, manually create the partition with the desired size during the installation). With a single W7 partition, the SuSE installation would most likely either use the remaining 3 primary slots for swap/root/home or it may create an extended with logicals to provide greater flexibility.