Hi Jordi, Jordi Hernandez wrote: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:08 PM Subject: [alice] partition disk problem
Hi, i would like to install SuSE distribution but not only this operating system, in my machine i have to exist another O.S. i.e. Windows NT, and now i have to formatting half disk and can keep untochable the part what's installed windows NT.
I don't found any tags for this proposit. Can i help me?
I don't know if you can help you. To your prob: Well, first of all you need to partition your hd. it's recommended to create 3 partitions minimum. You need 1 swap-partition. The size depends on your individual specs, AFAIK RAM + 100MB are recommended (perhaps the others have other experiences). One partition for the kernel (mount-point /boot - 15-20MB should be ok) and the rest for the rest. A standard-installation is about 2Gig (3 for full-installation?). Getting free space on the hd Partition Magic is an nice and suitable tool, but 6.0 wont't work (5.0 is ok, 7.0 I don't know), or try fips (first Suse-cd - dosutils). If want to have access on your ntfs-partition (I never needed) you can set a mountpoint (eg. /nt ) but I'm not sure if your kernel supports ntfs propperly (my kernel 2.2.16 unpatched can mount it readonly). Is there anybody who's experiences? Boot by cd and follow the instructions. greetings guido