Replace OpenSUSE w/Ubuntu but keep WinXP?

[Humann]

I've got a laptop with Windows XP Professional and OpenSUSE on it. I want to install Ubuntu in place of OpenSUSE, but keep WinXP intact.

The choices Ubuntu presents are to install it in addition to the two existing operating system partitions, completely erase the hard drive and install Ubuntu, or create custom partitions.

I'm assuming I'd have to do the latter, but I'm not exactly sure how to go about it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[daark.child]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

You need to choose the custom partitioning option and then select the openSUSE partitions for use with Ubuntu (they should be shown as ext3 or reiserfs. Windows partitions will be shown as NTFS or FAT32). When you install Ubuntu in the openSUSE partitions, that will overwrite openSUSE. Make sure your Windows partitions are not marked for formatting becuase that will overwrite Windows.