I am nearly finished downloading SuSe 10.1 DVD. I will be installing it later on today. The machine I will be installing it on has one partition that takes 99% of my hard drive and it has Windows XP Pro with files I want to keep on it and it an it's NTFS. It won't be the end of the world should something go wrong but preferably I would like to avoid that as it means a lot of downloading to get back to where I am.
I have installed SuSe 10 once before on an old machine and have installed Ubuntu on another old machine. In both cases it was just format and clean install. My hard drive is 80 GB. I will defrag before I start dividing up partitions. Anyway according to Window's "My Computer" I have 54 GB taken up and 20.4 GB to spare. I can probably shave the 54 GB down to 50 GB which gives me about 12 GB for a SuSe partition which I feel is reasonable because the SuSe install is 3.5 GB and includes a lot of software some of which I won't install or at least uninstall when it's finished. I will be using SuSe for various things such as playing media and web browsing maybe a small bit of college work but mostly I want to do it for learning to get to grips with SuSe.
Now what I need help with is advice. First off I have a Pentium 4 2.GHz, Dell 4600,6600 GT,X-Fi Music (Don't expect to work sa there are no drivers),HP DVD RW and a Netopia Caymen 3300 broadband modem. Will I encouter any problems with my hardware? What software should I use to create the 12 GB partition? Is there anything I am forgetting or haven't looked at. Thanks in advance for any replies.
I plan on using Partition Magic 8.0 (Free Trial) and will divide the hard drive like this. Total 74.4 GB
PRIMARY - Windows - NTFS - 50 GB
PRIMARY - Windows Paging - NTFS -1 GB
PRIMARY - Linux / - EXT3 - 8 GB
EXTENDED
LOGICAL - Linux Swap - Linux SWAP - .5 GB
LOGICAL - Linux /TMP - EXT3 - .5 GB
LOGICAL - Linux /VAR - EXT3 - .5 GB
LOGICAL - Linux /HOME - EXT3 - 2 GB
LOGICAL - WIN/LIN Shared - FAT32 - 10 GB
I have installed SuSe 10 once before on an old machine and have installed Ubuntu on another old machine. In both cases it was just format and clean install. My hard drive is 80 GB. I will defrag before I start dividing up partitions. Anyway according to Window's "My Computer" I have 54 GB taken up and 20.4 GB to spare. I can probably shave the 54 GB down to 50 GB which gives me about 12 GB for a SuSe partition which I feel is reasonable because the SuSe install is 3.5 GB and includes a lot of software some of which I won't install or at least uninstall when it's finished. I will be using SuSe for various things such as playing media and web browsing maybe a small bit of college work but mostly I want to do it for learning to get to grips with SuSe.
Now what I need help with is advice. First off I have a Pentium 4 2.GHz, Dell 4600,6600 GT,X-Fi Music (Don't expect to work sa there are no drivers),HP DVD RW and a Netopia Caymen 3300 broadband modem. Will I encouter any problems with my hardware? What software should I use to create the 12 GB partition? Is there anything I am forgetting or haven't looked at. Thanks in advance for any replies.
I plan on using Partition Magic 8.0 (Free Trial) and will divide the hard drive like this. Total 74.4 GB
PRIMARY - Windows - NTFS - 50 GB
PRIMARY - Windows Paging - NTFS -1 GB
PRIMARY - Linux / - EXT3 - 8 GB
EXTENDED
LOGICAL - Linux Swap - Linux SWAP - .5 GB
LOGICAL - Linux /TMP - EXT3 - .5 GB
LOGICAL - Linux /VAR - EXT3 - .5 GB
LOGICAL - Linux /HOME - EXT3 - 2 GB
LOGICAL - WIN/LIN Shared - FAT32 - 10 GB