openSuse installation problem (Vista)

[taa]

Acer Aspire One with Vista Home Basic
Tried to install openSuse 11.1 dual boot with Vista

Repartitioning error:
Failure setting type of partition /dev/sda7 to 82
Actually did repartition disk, Vista on about a half, unallocated other half

Problem: How do I recover so I can install openSuse? Disk tools in Vista do not
work on the unallocated (free space) partition made by openSuse. openSuse
evidently cannot use the new partition(s) as ext3

What next? What should I do?

Thanks.

[gogalthorp]

You may try booting a gparted disk to see what has happened.

GParted -- Live CD/USB/PXE/HD

BTW I don't recommend 11.1 (had issues) the current version is 11.2 and 11.3 is just about to be released.

[mikesd]

Huh? How is 11.3 about to be released and 11.2 latest when 11.2 is in Mileston only? That isn't being released til November of this year : OpenSUSE 11.2 - openSUSE

[gogalthorp]

Your right I got my numbers confused 11.0 is the one that was buggy. 11.2 is next version.

[mikesd]

11.0 was solid. 11.1 had some issues when it was first relased, many updates have come through and it's pretty solid now. It had some Grub problems in a real buggy KDE 4 and some other issues. Opensuse did a great job squishing the bugs. I haven't had a major problem yet.

[gogalthorp]

I saw lots of KDE 4 problems here with 11.0. KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were just not ready for prime time. I have great hopes for 4.3 but have not tried it yet Waiting for next release.