I want to dualboot my Lenovo Z61m laptop running XP Home Edition with OpenSuse 11.3. The Hardrive is 200Gb before formatting, and 186.31GB when formatted. I have already partitioned the drive so that my XP is 100GB. There is a 4.8GB recovery partition preinstalled, which I want to keep. I plan to use the last 81.4GB for OpenSuse. Can someone tell me how to set up the rest of the partitions using a Gparted livecd? OpenSuse is trying to shrink my XP partition even further to make all the partitions, even though there is already

If you allocate free space it should see it.

it does see it, but if wants to take more space from my xp partition and combine it with the already freed space.

There's no option to install to freespace?

that guide does not work, there is no live desktop entry on my boot disk. That guide must have been for another version of OpenSuse.

You must have this 1 and it doesn't show options, if in doubt get live version.
http://doc.opensuse.org/products/ope...e.installquick

I got the live cd. I am trying to install it, but before I do, I want to clarify a something. These are the Suggested Partitioning parameters:

Create extended partition /dev/sda3 (81.50 GB)
Create swap volume /dev/sda5 (2.01 GB)
Create root volume /dev/sda6 (20.00 GB) with ext4
Create volume /dev/sda7 (59.49 GB) for /home with ext4
Set mount point of /dev/sda1 to /windows/C

The only one I want clarification on is the last one. What does it mean?
Is it trying to permanently mount my windows partition?

It says to mount them and select not to format, Ibeleive it's so it doesn't format and make an entry into grub. If you have 3 wins partitions do the same for all.

i dont have 3 windows partitions. Just the one, so you are saying it will mount it as a drive, instead of formatting it to make the new linux install?

Make sure that the button that says do not format is checked.If you're following
http://anl4u.com/?p=764
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