On 12/21/2007 07:47 AM, Chris Arnold wrote:
Do you know if the recovery partition is the first or last partition? You could find this either in Windows in the Logical Volume Manager, or through a live cd boot disk. If you want to be sure, I would recommend the gparted live cd, which will let you resize your Windows NTFS partition an add your necessary partitions for Linux, from which you could install 10.3 with great confidence. You can specify within the install exactly how and where it will install. Changing around the partitioning (and even formatting) within gparted (gui frontend to libparted IIANM) is quite intuitive and comfortable if you have some idea what you are doing. HTH.
According to the windoze logical volume manager, it appears to be the last partition
In that case, I would definitely (if it were me) use the gparted live cd to make sure exactly what was happening, shrink the first partition, create a swap partition, then a logical containing 2 logical drives for / and /home, and then install 10.3 specifying those. I would also go ahead and format with gparted, but during 10.3 install let it format to be sure. This should not cause a problem with the recovery partition (which is usually a FAT partition with a specific partition code). With it being at the end, I would prefer to see exactly what I was doing, which is easier with gparted than the installer. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org