Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[John Pettigrew <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message, Jereme Hancock <jeremehancock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am a complete newbie to the Linux world. I have a Dell desktop with
> Windows XP. I would like to set up a dual boot system. I have PartitionMagic
> so I can shrink the XP partition, but I am really not sure how to do it.

Basically, you don't need to :-)

The SUSE installer will resize the WindowsXP partition for you during the
install, and will suggest a new partitioning setup for you. The only thing
that might be worth doing is defragmenting the Windows partition first,
although even this isn't essential.

For your first install, ignore any complicated advice you get. You only need
two partitions for linux - one to store everything on and one swap partition,
because linux keeps its virtual memory separate, which makes it faster and
safer. SUSE's installer will advise you to set up something like this during
the install.

The take-home message is, don't worry and just let the SUSE installer do it
for you. It's easy and it works.

John
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