Hi Everyone,
I am new here,and kinda confused on how to install suse… With other distro’s I have used, I just clicked INSTALL USING MOST CONTIGUOUS FREE SPACE…
But in SUSE, I noticed we dont have that… I am wondering HOW would I go about installing. without even having to touch XP at all?
I currently have I think its 140 gigs open that I would want it to use, and that is what I am trying to figure out
All Help welcomed <G>
Thanks,
Christopher
What do you mean “open?” Is it unformatted or just unused? Do you want to use all of it? If you want to share docs with XP, you don’t need a whole lot of room.
When you begin the install, suse will suggest a partitioning scheme. Usually, you can just accept it. But, if you want to modify it, or just check things out, click on the partitioning link and make adjustments. The good thing is: you can cancel without making changes.
Before you do anything, defrag XP! If the space you have is unformatted, that is not an issue, but do it anyway. It will help XP. Mostly, I stick a small, secondary drive in my computer when I want to dual boot. Although I have dual booted different laptops with either XP or Vista and opensuse. Each time the defaults worked out fine.
hi Prexy,
As is the space is NOT used. Its just free and not being used by anything ( Screenshot below )
Oh, about this JUST ACCEPT IT on the partition screen, do you think it will just automatically see the free space and used it or will it try to format over XP?
I am prob going to have a problem setting it up I have never done a install like this I just told the BUNTU family just use the free space on the hard drive I have never had to manually setup a / and /HOME and Swap before.
Here is the screenshot of how it is right now… The 150 gigs is what I am wanting to use.
http://www.grabup.com/uploads/8800101A05A02009462181277035.png?direct
Thanks,
Christopher
I don’t feel comfortable trying to take you any further. You have 4 primary partitions plus this open space. You will need to combine that open space with another partition, then suse will be able to put 3 extended partitions within it. You have to end up with no more primary partitions than you have now.
It can be done, easily I think, but I am not the one on this forum to tell you how to do it. If someone doesn’t give you an answer on this soon, start a new thread with “partition” in the title so the experts will see it and give you the right info. I would suggest something like “Need partitioning advice.”
Sorry. I just don’t want to tell you something that might lead to data loss or worse.
Whatever you have in D:
Could you copy it to XP?
Then I would prefer to see the partitions from the SUSE installer - Custom Partitioning.
I would actually just use gparted live to sort out the partitions, if you have those drives free merge them lowering the partitions to 3.
But BACK UP your shared and primary partition, and defrag your primary.
This way you can manage your system better, but still you will be low on space.
Thats why I suggest just deleting your shared partition, that way you can split your drive between XP and Suse.
So back up if possible.
Nobody explains that 4 primary partitions is the maximum. So there’s your problem. You need to bring the number of primary partitions down to max. 3, then create an extended partition, and have openSUSE create as many logical partitions in the extended one as you need.