Help with Disk Partitioning during 11.1 setup!!!

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Im using the install DVD for 11.1 and I already made a separate partition (50gb) using Vista but I have not formatted it yet…
I am now at the disk partitioning part of the install and I am very confused on what I should do…

First since I already have the partition there (again unformatted) do I choose “Edit partition setup” or “create partition setup”?

Thank You

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I assuming I choose to the “edit” option but then what do I do from there?
It see my whole HHD and then two partitions that are NTFS that I still want to use for windows, I also see a 49.99gb extended partition (is this the one that I just made or is this saying that it will create a new one?)

Thanks again

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There is a very good guide that goes through setting up a dual boot system. It tells you exactly how to set up the partitions. It is located under the FAQ or How to section of the forums. Hope it helps.

4

The extended partition of 50 GB is the one you made.
Now you can install OpenSUSE on it.

5

Suse will be suggesting a partition setup in black and red text above.
Likely it will automatically pickup the free space and use it accordingly to produce:

/
/home
swap

it will also set mount points for windows partitions.

If the setup it proposes looks ok, choose create, otherwise edit it.

if you can’t edit it manually and don’t understand, extended, primary, logical partitions. Come back.

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Thank you, appreciate all the help)

If I go to Edit Partition I see this:
dev/sda 232gb (my full drive)
dev/sda1 171gb NTFS (windows partition)
dev/sda2 10gb NTFS (windwos partition)
dev/sda3 49gb Extended
dev/sda5 2gb Swap
dev/sda6 19gb Native
dev/sda7 28gb Native

Does this mean that it is going to use the 49gb partition, plus another 49gb… or does it see the 49 and is splitting it up between 2, 19, and 28?

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OK, sorry, I get it…
It is taking the original 50 and splitting it into 3 smaller partitions!

I should be good from here (at least with this part)!

Thanks again for the help

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You got it
The dev/sda3 49gb Extended
is like a separate drive, nothing is actually stored on that, you just have what are called Logical Partitions within that space. Hence the:
dev/sda5 2gb Swap
dev/sda6 19gb Native
dev/sda7 28gb Native

= the total of dev/sda3 49gb Extended

It should work fine. Post back if there is a problem booting after install.