I went to install OpenSUSE 11.0 on my pc just a few hours ago. Suddenly, everything goes wrong. I lost my Ubuntu installation. I knew I was doing the right thing. It is clear it display /dev/sda2(my second partition) as installation location. But, why on earth it put all the files on my first partition where my Ubuntu installation resides after it formatted my second partition. Can you (developers) make a better installation options? Like asking where exactly the user want to install OpenSUSE on his/her drive(give a drop-down list). I also choose to boot from partition which mean OpenSUSE’s bootloader will be installed on its partition but that’s not what happen, because it had overwrite my MBR. I can be considered lucky not to lose all my files but I’m very sad. I hope everyone can understand me. For your info, I’m using GNOME Live CD, as DVD image is too big.
OpenSuse partitioner is a bit cryptic, if you compare it with the same on other distributions…
by the way did u used the installation of ubuntu under windows (i have same on my machine, where it installs ubuntu under a folder in windows file system) and then somehow it very intelligently makes it look like a partition… !
Opensuse partitoner is very good. Are you sure that in an multiboot environment you choose to mount the wrong partition (ubuntu) as /? I had Ubuntu 8.04 already istalled and then i installed os11.0 side by side with the other operating systems and i had no problems. Just one has to be sure about the partioning scheme when doing a multiboot environment