To Whom: I have bought Suse Linux 9.2 Pro, and am wanting to install it to the same harddrive as my Suse 9.0 Pr0, until I transfer all info to the new version. Problem is when I try to partition the 20gig hard drive, it keeps saying that partitioning is invalid! I was hoping to give a partition of about 10gig to 9.0 and the rest to 9.2. Can anyone help? I have already backed up what I consider the important parts to a CD, for future use.

Are you setting both partitions as "bootable" ?

Most computers can only have 1 bootable partition. (bootloader goes there).

To RodimusProblem: I was hoping that when I booted the computer as a whole, that 3 OS's would come up and I would then choose which I wanted for that session. Someone at my Club SIG has 7 versions of Linux on one drive and can "toggle" which he wants to boot.

He's using a bootloader. Probably Grub or Lilo. All a bootloader does is display a menu and then boot from the image requested.

It makes sense to me that you should be able to partition your drive into 2 sections, one for 9.0 and one for 9.2;

Some distros (like IMPI) mark their partition as bootable - whether that's going to work or not. If not, then you have to fix the partition table manually via a rescue disk.

I've never installed SUSE, but if it's installation program is like Red Hat's Disk Druid it won't allow you to make a ext2 partition without stating a mount point.

In that case leave half of the drive unallocated. When you install SUSE 9.2 , make that unallocated space a new / partition.

Do you already have 4 primary partitions on that har disk? You can only have 4 on any hard drive. After the 3rd you should creare a logical partition. In that logical partition you can create as many partitions as you like.

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