Greetings,

I'm a newbie to the linux world so bare with me.

I have a Dell Latitude D800 Laptop with Win2k Pro & WinXP installed on it.
WinXP is installed on C: with 30GB of space. Win2k Pro is installed on D: with 15GB of space. I have a third parition (E that is 15GB and not formatted yet.
I was thinking about installing SuSE 9.1 Personal on it. However, before i attempt to do this and melt my laptop, I thought i'd ask you guys for some advice. This can be done without taking a high amount of risk, right? Is there a certain order in which the operating systems need to be installed (ex: install SuSE first, then Win2k, then WinXP)? After the installation of SuSE is complete, i'll still be able to choose which O.S. i want to boot, right? Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

*Nick*

Yes, but I would still back up anything important. (I have never lost anything while setting up a dual/triple boot yet, but there's always a first !).

SuSE should automatically detect your two windows partitions, and give you the option to install into the spare 15 Gb partition (most likely creating a small swap partition inside it also). The order in which to do this is windows first, followed by Linux, as you're already on the way to doing.

Good luck

Cheers,

mj