install Suse on a Windows XP computer

[littlewenwen]

Dear All,

I have a Windows XP computer, the disk information is as follows:

1. two hard drives, master drive 40G, slave drive 200G
2. master drived partioned as C (28G) and E (12G), the Windows XP is on C, while E is free
3. slave drive is partioned as D (200G), all my data is on D.

I tried to install Suse 10.0 on E. However, it keeps asking me to select installation drive starting from C (the reasons seems because C (28G) is bigger than E (12G) ). But I want to keep the Windows XP. Could any one give me some suggestion?

Thank you!

[devils casper]

delete E: drive using Disk Management Tool of Windows. keep it unpartitioned/unformatted.
during SuSu Installation, select 'unpartitioned free space' for install. insteller will create/format partitions in free space.

[littlewenwen]

Thank you!

Does that mean I can use D to install Suse? As the whole slave hard drive (200G) is designed as D.

[devils casper]

Does that mean I can use D to install Suse? As the whole slave hard drive (200G) is designed as D.

yes. resize partitions of Second disk, create some free space for SuSe and install it.

[littlewenwen]

Thank you so much.