I have SuSe Linux 7.1 and want to install the full version on a 2nd HDD, currently config is for Windows 98, FAT32, 20Gb. There is nothing on this 2nd (EIDE) HDD and I want to put aside c.10Gb for Linux and leave the remainder for Windows.
My understanding is that I can have the 2 o/s's concurrently on the HDD but I would need to insert CD/floppy at boot up of the PC so it knows that I wish to 'fire up' the Linux environment (on the 2nd HDD) rather than W98 on the primary HDD and 1/2 of the 2nd HDD.
I tried at first to shrink the windows partition on the 2nd HDD and altho I have run scandisk and defrag on it, then tried again, the linux install processes indicate that I cannot proceed with a shrinking the current primary (only) partition on the 2nd HDD.

Advice please ...

Thanks
Cam the Oz

to repartition it ('shrink' it) you can use fdisk which should be found on your suse disk. i would recommend redhat instead of suse for your first distro though. either one will install somthing called lilo (or grub) which is a boot loader that will let you chose which os to boot into.