Goal is dual boot Suse and Vista.
I have a Acer AM1610-U1201A.
Windows Vista installed from factory.
I made recovery disks for Windows and then attempted to install Suse 10.2 from cds received from Suse. The install failed so I then downloaded Suse 10.3 from ftp and burned dvd.
Suse could not recognize the disk partitions so I left them alone, only creating a linux partition from a RAW partition.
This is what it was:
volume FS Capacity(GB)
sda1 9.76
sda5 1.48
sda3 RAW 65.87
sda2 ACER(C) NTFS 43.31
sda4 DATA(D) NTFS 111.43

I used sda3 for a linux partition. The Suse DVD allowed me to pick my SW packages and began to install, but then crashed and I had to power off. Now I boot into grub with the following:
root (hd0,
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x27
Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x6
Partition num: 3, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82

I can also see:
root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xf

The alt F10 key sequence does not install the factory presets.

The Vista Recovery cds fail on disk 2 with an error of:
Restore failed - reason 0xa000000e

Suse 10.2 CD fails with:
Could not find the openSUSE installation CD. Activating manual setup program. It then fails with Unable to mount CDROM. The only option that does anything from this point is reboot.

Suse 10.3 DVD
Allows reinstall, but wants to repartition the drive to remove Vista.
Choose not to change partitioning as I need to keep Vista.
Boot from hard drive results in same grub as listed above.