Ok i am new to linux, so please explain to me like I am 10. I have 3 hard drives sata1, sata2, and sata3, I simply want to set suse up to run with duel boot. I have windows xp on sata 1, data on sata 2, and sata 3 is empty so i was hoping to use suse here. My problem is i am a little confused on setting up the partions from the install prompt. The only way i can install is using boot installation and I have drives and there is /dev/sda5,/dev/sda6,dev/sdc2/dev/sdc5,dev/sdc6,dev/sdc7. Which i have no idea what these drives are and why its set up that way, any help would be appreciated.

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It looks like the blank drive may be the second sata disk and not the third. If you press [CTRL][ALT][F2] I think that will give you a psuedo shell, where you can run "fdisk -l" to make sure. This program will display the partitions on the drives. If sdb is listed but no sdb# then use the sdb disk.

/dev/sda is the first drive. /dev/sda1 is the first partition on the first disk. /dev/sdc is the third disk. I'm not sure why there isn't a /dev/sdc1. One other thing. If disk can have only 4 primary partitions. If you have an extended partition, it will probably be the forth. The first partition inside the extended partition will be called sda5 or sdb5 or sdc5, etc.