how do i set /home using partition magic?

[dr_girly_clueless]

hi,

i want to dual boot xp and suse 10.2.

i know that i need at least 3 partitions for linux: swap, root, and home.

I downloaded partition magic, and was wondering if i am doing the right thing.

i clicked onto the add new operating system, followed it though, it added linux as primary.

Then after this it gave me the option to add the swap partition, which i did, so that too was added as primary after linux, as linux swap.

Now this is where i am really not sure(even more than the above:P), how am i meant to add the home?
Is it just meant to be added as extended?

What about the FAT32 which i was told to add as well? confused.

Could someone let me know what to do. Step by step would be great

Thanks in advance.

[devils casper]

i wont recommend Partition Magic. it hides Windows partition and installs its own boot loader 'boot magic' in dual boot setup. boot magic creates a lot of problems later on.
SuSe' installer creates / (root), /home and SWAP partitions by default. leave unpartitioned/free space and start SuSe installation. select 'unpartitioned/free space' in Partition Section. installer will create/format partitions and setup dual boot for you.
if you want to create partitions manually then download GParted LiveCD and create partitions through it,





Casper

[dr_girly_clueless]

hi casper,
when i try and install, it says i havent got enough memory to load the yast, and it wants me to set up a swap, giving me an example of /dev/dsa2
when i type that, it gives me an error message.

What do i do ?

[devils casper]

how much RAM do you have? are you creating partitions manually?





Casper

[dr_girly_clueless]

i just put the cd in, and it almost straight away said i havent enough memory to load the yast, but the thing is i have just installed xp as well, and now im trying the install linux.

[dr_girly_clueless]

btw its an intel pentium2, with 128 mb of ram.

[devils casper]

installer should create partitions itself unless you have less RAM. how much RAM do you have??? did you create unpartitioned space?


Edit: you need atleast 256MB RAM. 128MB is too low. check system requirements here.





Casper

[dr_girly_clueless]

ok..i see....well it worked with suse 10.1, il try that, i tried it before and it worked, not as dual boot though...will i have the same problem as a dual boot?

[devils casper]

yes ! but SuSe10.1 will be very slow in your machine. either add more RAM OR check here. there are a lot of distros out there that perform very well with 128MB RAM.






Casper

[dr_girly_clueless]

lol...guess what, i just tried to install 10.1, and it wanted to shrink the windows partition to 5GB.
i allowed it, (was i right to do so?)
Anyway...
What happened was, an error message occured, and a system code error -3027 showed up.
lol...help?