mutli boot linux and windows

[firefoxx04]

ok, i tried this, my partitions are like this

disk 0
part 1 50GB wondows C
part 2 6GB ntfs important files
part 3 7.8GB Security software
disk 1
part 1 450GB data ntfs

on disk 0 i have 80GB of free space,
so what kind of partitions do i need

also, when i have to select a boot loader i choose none, becuase i like the windows one,

here is the boot ini if i need to mess with it at all

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws XP Home" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /usepmtimer
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windo ws XP Workstation" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
c:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Recovery Console" /CMDCONS

i am installing open Suse

[yancek]

so what kind of partitions do i need

A root partition and a swap partition, either or both of which may be primary or logical partitions. You may have separate partitions for /boot, /home/ etc.. if you wish but if this is your first Linux install, keep it simple.

I guess that's the only question. Grub bootloader is better than windows but, if you want to use windows bootloader you just need to create a file for Linux and an entry in boot.ini.

[njuguna]

I advise you to let go of the windows bootloader...t'll only complicate things!
Just use linux's GRUB. It's simpler and more managable.