Help on Dual booting SUSE 10

[kaivorth]

I have a 200gb hard drive that is partitioned into 4 partitions, one being used for windows xp. When i try to setup SUSE, it tells me to resize windows, but then when i tell it to, it cant. Each partition is about 31gb's each so im not sure if thats enough space. I want one to be used for the root installion, another one for swap, and the last one for /home. Any help whould be appreciated thx in advance.

[apoorv_khurasia]

SUSE 10.0's complete install takes up something like 10GBs. If you add another 3GB for more packages you later plan to install then also 31GB is whopping large!!!

Now the ideal way should be to empty one of your drives (move contents etc...) and while installing SUSE partition that drive accordingly. Choose custom partitioning, delete that partition and create three new partitions in its place. Give 15 GB for root, 2*RAM for you swap and remaining for your home directory. No need to resize any partition (that is always risky).

[devils casper]

I have a 200gb hard drive that is partitioned into 4 partitions, one being used for windows xp. When i try to setup SUSE, it tells me to resize windows, but then when i tell it to, it cant. Each partition is about 31gb's each so im not sure if thats enough space. I want one to be used for the root installion, another one for swap, and the last one for /home. Any help whould be appreciated thx in advance.

what type of partitions are you creating? you can not create more than four Primary Partitions. check the Partitions type in Windows Disk Management Tool.





Casper

[gogalthorp]

I have a 200gb hard drive that is partitioned into 4 partitions, one being used for windows xp. When i try to setup SUSE, it tells me to resize windows, but then when i tell it to, it cant. Each partition is about 31gb's each so im not sure if thats enough space. I want one to be used for the root installion, another one for swap, and the last one for /home. Any help whould be appreciated thx in advance.

You should remove any unused partitions. Let Suse create the parititions for itself. You should have 3 Linux partions at least mounted as 1)swap, 2)root, 3)home.

swap should be about twice thae amount of ram you have.
root should be at least 10 gig (mine is 20)
home this is where the user files are stored what ever you think you need.

In my case I added a fourth which I mount as VM to store my Virtual machine files. I run XP inside of Linux with VMware server. Very cool. Note need lots of memory to run smoothly. In my case 2gig