troubles installing SuSE

Mizugori

I am trying to install SuSE Linux on a pc. Basically, I had a 27 gb hdd with WinXP Pro installed on it, and when I installed SuSE on it the installed somehow preserved Windows and installed SuSE as well. When I restarted the pc, a menu came up prompting me to select Windows or SuSE, and both worked fine! My problem is that I now want to install both WinXP Pro and SuSE on a 80 gb hdd and have it work the same way.

I tried using the winxp pro cd to part the hard drive into 2 paritions of about 38 gb each, and I then formatted one of them and installed winxp pro on it. it worked fine. however, when I installed SuSE it said something about "resizing NTFS partition to 13 GB" and now that the install has finished I have that same menu when I turn on the PC, but Windows does not work. I get a partition error. SuSE works fine though.

How can I do this so that each OS will have about half of the hard drive, and will work? I was so thrilled that SuSE apparently configures a bootloader automatically, because I could never set up LILO correctly in the past when I had tried to install SlackWare and Winxp on the same hdd.

so, someone please read this and help me, I am very new to Linux. Thanks!

shwaip

Have you tried installing SuSE first, and telling it to only install to half of the HD?

Mizugori

no i thought winxp would destroy linux if i did it second lol

plus then how would suse setup the boot loader for me?

Shorty

If you have access to a good partition manager (eg.. partition magic8 onwards), boot of the floppies and make the partitions yourself.

Read the SUSE docs for a recommended partition structure, probably somethig like:

/boot
/swap
/
/home
/var

Read the docs for the recommended amounts and use your own judgement

Then install XP on first partition, install SUSE.. and don't let the auto disk manager do a thing. The bootloader will still write as before. It's not part of the disk partitioning process