need a step by step dual booting guide(more precise than what I have found)

[Zirconium]

Please give me a click by click, key by key guide on how to dual boot suse while you have xp installed, and please to not hold back on the details you would give to someone who has a brain the size of a peanut, and I've never done this before either, and I've gotten as far as getting an error message saying something about a Journal been unclean, so please give directions of what to do BEFORE I put the disk in, and I'd like a guide for how to get a working version of 10.3 onto a CD-R, and make it possible to boot it, and IF it's possible to have pictures, then please add those

now I may be useless when it comes installing Linux, but I'm great with learning coding and remembering it, so I can garuntee that this is the only part will be hard for me

[budman7]

Go to the OpenSuse download page.
Check out either the Gnome or Kde cd isos.
Make sure that when you burn it, that you do it slowly, I recommend 4x to 10x.
After that just reboot with the cd in the drive and OpenSuse should do the rest, with you just answering a few questions.
Suse has always set up a dual-boot with Windows by default.

[oz]

Please give me a click by click, key by key guide on how to dual boot suse while you have xp installed, and please to not hold back on the details you would give to someone who has a brain the size of a peanut

Welcome to the forums!

I've been using Linux for more than 7 years and have never seen any distro installation howto that was that detailed.

Like budman7 says above, the installer makes the process pretty much a painless experience. Just take your time and follow the prompts during the install. The biggest hurdle for most new users is the partitioning process. I usually make my partitions something like the following:

/ (8 to 12 GB with the ext3 filesystem)
swap (about 512 MB, swap filesystem)
/home (8 to 12 GB with the ext3 filesystem)

/ is the root partition where all the system files reside.
swap is used by the system when it gets hungry for more memory and your ram is used up.
/home is where your user files reside.

You really don't have to make a /home partition if you don't want one, and your user files will reside on the root partition with the system files.

[Zirconium]

Welcome to the forums!

I've been using Linux for more than 7 years and have never seen any distro installation howto that was that detailed.

Like budman7 says above, the installer makes the process pretty much a painless experience. Just take your time and follow the prompts during the install. The biggest hurdle for most new users is the partitioning process. I usually make my partitions something like the following:

/ (8 to 12 GB with the ext3 filesystem)
swap (about 512 MB, swap filesystem)
/home (8 to 12 GB with the ext3 filesystem)

/ is the root partition where all the system files reside.
swap is used by the system when it gets hungry for more memory and your ram is used up.
/home is where your user files reside.

You really don't have to make a /home partition if you don't want one, and your user files will reside on the root partition with the system files.

ok, may I have a detailed guide on how to make it the same as what you have it as please?

[Zirconium]

Go to the OpenSuse download page.
Check out either the Gnome or Kde cd isos.
Make sure that when you burn it, that you do it slowly, I recommend 4x to 10x.
After that just reboot with the cd in the drive and OpenSuse should do the rest, with you just answering a few questions.
Suse has always set up a dual-boot with Windows by default.

I need more detail on how to burn it, as the last time I tried burning, it always said something about not been able to find something, and that was with the files extracted from and within the iso file(using nero)

also do I get gnome or kde?

[devils casper]

I need more detail on how to burn it, as the last time I tried burning, it always said something about not been able to find something, and that was with the files extracted from and within the iso file(using nero)

Do not extract .iso image. Just select Burn Image to Disk option in Nero ( its in Menu ).

also do I get gnome or kde?

By default, you will get both.

[Zirconium]

Do not extract .iso image. Just select Burn Image to Disk option in Nero ( its in Menu ).
By default, you will get both.

ok theres more than one nero program, which do I use?

[devils casper]

All Nero programs have Burn Image to Disk option. I have used Nero Express mostly.

[budman7]

On the link I provided, there are single cd iso images for gnome and kde.
As for which one you should get, that is up to you.
See thispage for more info on burning the cd.

[oz]

ok, may I have a detailed guide on how to make it the same as what you have it as please?

I don't have any detailed guides. I generally use the guide built into the installer on different distros. They seem to work pretty well for most folks.

Good luck with your installation and let us know how it goes.