XP installed need help dual booting with Suse.

[Maestro]

Hello all,

 

I have a 55gb hard drive, that currently has 2 partitions (rounded figures)

 

part 1 = Windows XP, 50 gb's big, 25 gb's used 24 gbs free NTFS Primary

part 2 = recovery partition 7 gb's big FAT32 Primary

 

I want to add OpenSuse 10.2 64 edition, I have norton partition manager to resize and split which I believe may be needed? I don't need any more room for windows so could put 20 gb's for linux but im unsure of what I need to know, and what partition type the split should be, is it even a split? extend? no idea!

 

Help much appreciated

 

Thanks in advance.

[anyweb]

first of all, back up your DATA before doing any re-partitioning of your hard disc,

 

then i'd advise you to use partition magic 8 or better to partition a 10gb (or bigger) BLANK partition on your hard disc

 

you can then install suse on that partition and the suse setup will in turn re-partition that partition into several others,

 

installing suse will also install GRUB which will manage dual boot between XP/linux.

 

cheers

anyweb