On 12/21/2007 07:07 AM, Chris Arnold wrote: > I am gonna try to explain this as clear as possible. I have an IBM thinkpad > T43 and it has that other OS installed. It also has the "recovery" part on > the hard drive that i do not want to destroy (as they did not ship recovery > cd's with this system). I want to install suse 10.3 onto this ibm laptop > without destroying the "recovery" section of the drive. The last time i tried > this, i could not figure out how to do this without wipping-out the recovery > section on the drive. Can anyone explain how to do this without formatting > the entire drive? > Do you know if the recovery partition is the first or last partition? You could find this either in Windows in the Logical Volume Manager, or through a live cd boot disk. If you want to be sure, I would recommend the gparted live cd, which will let you resize your Windows NTFS partition an add your necessary partitions for Linux, from which you could install 10.3 with great confidence. You can specify within the install exactly how and where it will install. Changing around the partitioning (and even formatting) within gparted (gui frontend to libparted IIANM) is quite intuitive and comfortable if you have some idea what you are doing. HTH.
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