-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-04-01 at 04:58 -0700, Steve Swezy wrote:
But I am totally confused by the installation DVD choices. Do I do Partition Based or LVM based?
Whatever you like... I prefer partition based, but it is currently limited to 14 partitions.
The installation DVD wants to format both the first two partitions.
Don't let it. As your case is special, you have to use the "expert" setting and choose your exact requirements.
openSUSE (installation DVD) does not seem to allow me to choose a particular partition to format and install into.
Yes, it does; it simply is not a "typical" install, it is a special case. Another thing you will have to decide is where and how to install the boot loader. My choice is: - one distro installs grub in the MBR -> primary grub - the rest install grub in the boot record of their root partition, and the primary grub chainloads the secondary grub: title Factory (via grub in hda8) root (hd0,7) configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknTXMoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UsSQCgjL+jHmIVEpzHSMWKbtq7AiML IdEAoIbwKJXqceSiKy3wYh4u6FBgfED6 =uaBZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org