Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1495 mails)

["Steve Swezy" <steveswezy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone-

I hope you can help a rookie to Linux.

I am trying to install openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora 10 on 2 separate already 
existing partitions on a newly installed 120 GB HD.

I actually created 3 partitions of about 10 GB each, using a LiveCD Ubuntu 
8.04, and installed Ubuntu on the first one and Freespire 2.08 on the 
second.
I have a third empty partition of 10 GB and the last partition of about 90 
GB on which I want to install Win XP Pro.

Neither Ubuntu nor Freespire have drivers for my wireless card, but it seems 
that openSUSE 11.1 and Fedora 10 do.
So I want to install openSUSE on the secong existing partition and Fedora on 
the third existing partition.

But I am totally confused by the installation DVD choices.
Do I do Partition Based or LVM based?
The installation DVD wants to format both the first two partitions.
Can't I leave the existing partition with Ubuntu already installed and just 
format the 2nd one (that has Freespire on it) and install openSUSE on that 
one?
And then install Fedora 10 on the 3rd, leaving the 4th empty for Win XP?

I have looked at several LiveCDs of several distros and they all have 
different procedures regarding the existing partitions, and I am lost.
openSUSE (installation DVD) does not seem to allow me to choose a particular 
partition to format and install into.

Am I being too ambitious?

Steve- 

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