How to disable Win 7 dual boot and do a fresh install with only openSUSE 11.4

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I have been trying to install openSUSE 11.4 on a Windows 7 laptop, but the suggested partitioning sucks and I lack the skills to do it manually. I would like to format the laptop drive, give up Windows for good and do a fresh install of openSUSE 11.4. openSUSE wants me to keep Windows boot. But I do not want it!

I have tried for an hour now. Can’t format, there is no options for that in the openSUSE 11.4 install. There are expert options, but I really do not know how many partitions does openSUSE require. For some strange reason openSUSE wants to keep my Windows partitions. WHY? And if I delete all of the partitions, it wont automatically recreate the needed partitions for openSUSE, it only displays errors and won’t let me continue.

For the love of God, do I have to open the laptop, remove the hard drive, put it in another computer and format there?

Why isn’t there an option for removing all partitions, formatting the drive and installing openSUSE?

Christ…

Thus:

How to disable the forced Win 7 dual boot openSUSE offers and do a fresh install with only openSUSE 11.4 WITHOUT ANY WINDOWS DUAL BOOT BS.

By the way, since my laptops internal DVD is broken and I will not repair it until my daughter is old enough to handle optical drives, I use USB DVD and it won’t give me any boot options but starts installation right away. This is also strange.

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Did you try with live CD or with installation DVD?

So you have problem with your DVD driver.

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DVD player. I mean.

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Download the disk Parted Magic. It’s bootable and when you’ve booted, there’s a button on the Desktop called Partition Editor. Use that application to delete all partitions on the hard drive. Then let the openSUSE installer have its way when you run it next.

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I use USB DVD and it won’t give me any boot options but starts installation right away. This is also strange

You should be able to change that in the Bios.