Hi all,
I recently bought a portable with a Windows 7 system.
I want to install openSUSE 11.3 but I also want to keep Windows 7 - so I need to install a dual boot system.
On my desktop I have GRUB with Windows XP and openSUSE 11.3 and all works fine.
How do I proceed ? I did not find much documentation yet, but maybe I looked in the wrong places.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
W
The installer will generally do it all for you. BUT ideally we like to see your disk partitioning. But not from windows (it’s useless)
Boot a live CD or get this and burn it to a cd: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/pmagic-4.5.iso
Get us the result of:
fdisk -l
In a SUSE live cd you will need to do su -
But Parted opens to root
Thanks for your answer.
I tried to do it from the install DVD, but I got the message that my Windows 7 partition AND my “Recovery partition” would be erased, which I clearly do not want to be happening.
I’ll follow your tip and I’ll come back to you.
W
Very important for you to provide the output from fdisk, because you have a Recovery Partition on your drive that you need to keep for your portable (lap?).
I’m not sure you have a free partition to install OpenSuse. I think you may need to use Parted, Gparted LiveCD or similar product to resize your HDD and create a partition with enough room to install OpenSuse 11.3.
Use W7’s utility (IIRC >control centre) to shrink the W7 partition by 50% (W7 seems to limit that), that’s usually more than enough to install 11.3.
We do really need to see fdisk -l
Not much point shrinking windows if there are already 4 primary partitions, a possibility that does exist.
The point was to make the OP aware that there is an alternative way to create space. If there is a 4th primary partition in use, clearly one will have to go if it isn’t the extended partition.