Suse 10.0 installation help

Hi, I'm a newbie to linux and I'm running into issues with installing suse.

Basically when it came to formatting, i told it to shrink my existing windows partition (I have 2 hard disks, 1 80 GB with windows xp and another 250 GB with no OS just NTFS partition)

Instead what it did is reserve 1 GB for swap space on my 2nd HD and about 150 GB for the root lesving 70 GB for NTFS which is not what i want.

The installation itself didn't even work, after doing CD 1 when it came to the loader it said error 21. But after doing something (can't remember what, at least i get the boot screen and can get into windows. If I try to enter Linux i get a grey screen and asks for login and password which i didn't specifu so basically I can't even go into linux.

Any ideas as to how to fix this mess. Ideally I would have liked to have a separate parition for linux (root and swap) but not 150 GB as I want the rest for NTFS. Is there a way I can undo my previous installtion or unistall suse altogehter?

And how should I parition my hard drives to do this?

thanks

double post mods http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=467505

sorry about the double post I wasn't aware of the rules, but I would really appreciate any assistance on this matter.

thanks

hehe, see the other one for an answer!

Please don't double post. Thread has been reported for closure, continue conversation in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=467505

Please carry on in the younger but active dupe. This one is closed.

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