A Scare When Installing Suse

[Blue_cow]

Ok so i just went to install Suse 9.3 professional over top of my old fc3 install and i got stuck on the partitioning part.

 

Right now i have two hard drives. One with about 96gb of windows and 15 gigs of my linux partition then 1gb for the swap. Now recently i got another hard drive to have windows on. so thats 111gb of all windows that musnt be touched (it has all my music and stuff) and i dont want to erase my windows partition either. All i want to do is install Suse overtop of my old linux partition. So, does this sound right?

 

- Delete Partition /dev/hda1 14.9gb (linux native)

- Create root partition 13.9 (/dev/hda3 with reiser)

- Create swap partition 1011.8mb on /dev/hda1

- Set mount point of /dev/hda2 to /windows/c

- Set mount point of /dev/hdb1 to /windows/d

 

Will that leave my windows partition untouched?

[Compxpert]

It should leave it untouched. The only thing u shouldn't leave untouched is the mbr since it seems u intend to dual boot.

[Blue_cow]

I see. How do i set that up? This is only my second time installing linux. First time using SUSE

[Compxpert]

That I don't know I do know how to setup FC4 to use the mbr but not Suse. My suggestion unless u want to wait for someone els to post is to use

[Blue_cow]

So do you think it would be safe to install like this.....?

[Leldorion]

edit: bah, just ignore my post, it's early in the morning here and I guess I should wait to give advice when I'm fully awake. In other words, everything looks okay.

Edited August 5, 2005 by Leldorion