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We are attempting to perform a dual boot installation on an inspiron laptop. When the intallation gets to "Installation Settings", it apparently does not see the existing windows OS. Under ...
  1. 11-11-2006 #1
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    Suse 10.1/ XP Dual boot installation problem

    We are attempting to perform a dual boot installation on an inspiron laptop. When the intallation gets to "Installation Settings", it apparently does not see the existing windows OS. Under "Partitioning" it wants to
    • delete partition /dev/hda1 (93.1 gb)
    • create swap partitiion /dev/hda1 (2.0 gb)
    • create root partion /dev/hda2 (20.0 gb) with reiserfs
    • creat partition /dev/hda3 (71.1 gb) for /home with reiserfs


    Can someone tell us what we need to do to get the installation to see and keep the existing windows?

    Thank you.
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    create a free/unpartitioned space for SuSe. you can use GParted to resize/create partitions. during installation, select 'Unpartitioned/Free Space for install'. installer will take care of partitioning and formatting stuff. Dual boot is defualt. dont change anything in 'Boot Loader' section.




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