Im very new to linux and attempting to install Suse 11. I have read how to create the custome partitions. However when i attempt to do this i am given an error message no partitions can be created on this drive. I have just defragged and can not find what the issue is. Any help appreciated
Try and tell us a little more. What is/was on the drive. How is it formatted (vFAT, NTFS??).
What were you trying to create.?
It’s possible it is related to some BIOS settings but we need more info.
Partitioning guide:
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Sure thing, I have vista installed on a ntfs drive, then a small recovery partition. I was attempting to create a / swap and /home partition, using the livedvd isntaller. But i get an error each time. If i just allow the reccomended partition it will lock at 1% and i have to run CHKDSK when booting back into vista. When i try to add anything to dev/sata i get errors no partitions can be added to this drive
BlackSteve wrote:
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> Sure thing, I have vista installed on a ntfs drive, then a small
> recovery partition. I was attempting to create a / swap and /home
> partition, using the livedvd isntaller. But i get an error each time.
> If i just allow the reccomended partition it will lock at 1% and i have
> to run CHKDSK when booting back into vista. When i try to add anything
> to dev/sata i get errors no partitions can be added to this drive
>
>
Hello Steve,
Normally you should shrink your windows partion to create free space for
Linux. My experience is that you should also temporarily set the Windows
virtual memory to zero (before and during the repartitioning).
During the Linux install you shrink 1st your windows usage of the disk
space. In the free space created you should create 3 Linux partitions:
/
/home
linux swap
Since you have already 2 windows primary partitions you should create an
extended partition in all the free space and than, in that extended
partition, create the above mentioned 3 Linux partitions.
Normally the openSUSE installer will propose this after you say that you
want to keep windows and basically want a dual boot system with Windows and
openSUSE
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Regards / Groeten,
Frans
Auto partitioning in suse is not good. I have 20GB unpartitioned space, still suse wants to shrink the other partitions. I had to do manual partitioning 
I created only 2 partions / & swap and did not make a seperate partition to mount /home. Will there be any drawbacks of this?
Maybe you could supply a little more detail. I just installed suse on a Vista laptop. First, I defragged, didn’t remember to turn off virtual memory, used the Vista tool to shrink the partition. That left me with only 12GB. Opensuse 11.1 installed in the unpartitioned space, asked for no more space and gave me 3 partitions. It is working well.
If you have 20GB, you can get this working. 