Dual boot with Suse 9.2 and Windows xp

[jacco]

To start easy, I installed suse 9.2 deleting my 20 GB NTFS partition on a 20 GB drive with windows xp installed. This worked ok.

I read in the forums that it's much easier installing windows before installing Linux.

Therefore I deleted all the linux partitions, after which I installed windows xp, letting windows setup create a fat32 partition.

After installing windows, I started suse setup. I let it make my windows partition smaller. During this operation, it told me about an internal error, but it told me my windows configuration was still intact.

I decided to make my windows partition smaller manually. So I created a 10 GB Unallocated partition.

When I start linux setup now, it freezes during:
starting yast...
> int.14: soft raid

I tried converting the Unallocated partition to FAT32 before running setup but this generates the same problem.

What do I have to do to get it work?

For your information: I'm a linux newbie...

Thank you for help.

[dylunio]

What kind of hard disk do you use? ATA, IDE, SATA? do you use raid?

dylunio

[jacco]

I use IDE

[jacco]

I don't use raid.

[dylunio]

Try removing any usb devices you may have, mouse/keyboard should be ok though.

[jacco]

Thank you very much . It seems to work now. If I encounter problems during the rest of the installation I'll ask.