SUSE 9.3 Pro Partition Setup

[sheed_03]

Hello, I am new to the forum and thank you very much for the wealth of information I have found about the Thinkpads. I am awaiting my T42 2374-3VU and I can't wait for it to arrive.

I plan on dual booting my T42 with WinXP and SUSE 9.3 Professional. I have Partition Magic 7.0 so I will have no problems resizing the WinXP partition before I install Suse. I will have a 80 GB hard drive so this is the partition scheme I want to use:

WINXP: 20 GB, NTFS
DATA: 15 GB, FAT32 (so I can share data btw. WinXP and SUSE)
WINBACKUP: 15 GB, NTFS
SUSE_OS: 15 GB
SUSE_SWAP: 1 GB

My question is this: Should I form the SUSE_OS and SUSE_SWAP partitions with Partition Magic before I install SUSE 9.3, or should I instead leave 16 GB of unallocated space and let the SUSE 9.3 partition tool take care of partitioning the SUSE_OS and SUSE_SWAP partitions?

I have installed SUSE 9.2 Pro and SUSE 9.3 Pro on my desktop using VMWare 5.0 and I really enjoyed working with SUSE. Thanks for reading.

[dokein]

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