Replacing Suse with Ubuntu

[Musicboy32]

Hi all,

I'm currently running a dual boot Vista/Suse on my computer, which has been okay for my purposes. I want to start getting deeper into Linux, and I want to replace my Suse installation with Ubuntu.

I just installed a second HDD in my computer, and I want to put Ubuntu on that one, rather than the same HD as Vista. My problem is that I really don't know much about partitioning, and I part of my uninstall of Suse should be reclaiming the partition on my original hard drive, but I'm not entirely comfortable with how that's supposed to be done. How should I go about it?

Thanks

[x2015-0706]

hellow

I think I will just install ubuntu into the 2nd HD,
then I will get a multi boot menu with vista/suse/ubuntu on the list ;

the partitions which suse used before could easily be deleted and re-use by vista or ubuntu,

last thing to do is to edit the multi boot menu.

well, this is just what i thought.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

First of all, remove GRUB ( Boot loader of SuSe ) from first hard disk. Follow instructions from here. Vista will start booting up by default. Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD, open GParted Partition Manager. Delete Linux Partitions from first Harddisk and create new NTFS partitions. Vista will recognize new NTFS partitions and assign Drive Letter to those.

Unplug Vista Harddisk, plug-in other Harddisk as Primary Master. Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD and open GParted Partition Manager. Create 2 partitions for Ubuntu.

10-15 GB, ext3
512 MB, SWAP

You can create more partition in NTFS for data sharing between Ubuntu and Vista.

Start Ubuntu installation. Select Manual partitioning in Partition Section and assign / mount point to ext3 partition. Installer will detect SWAP partition itself.

Plug-in Vista Harddisk as Secondary after Ubuntu installation. Boot up Ubuntu, open Terminal and execute this

sudo fdisk -l

Post output here. I will post the code for dual boot setup. You will have to edit one file only. In this setup, your boths harddisk will be independent of each other. Even if anything goes wrong with one, other will boot up fine.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.