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Installl 12.2 to secondary hdd Jan 20th 2013, 16:06 System: Pentium 4 dual core 3 GHz 2 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 1GB RAM Maxtor STM3250820AS primary hdd, 250 GB. ST1500DL003-9VT16L secondary hdd, 1.5 TB SOundblaster Audigy Sony DVD-ROM DDU1613 TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222A ASRock P4VM890 mobo Home built about 7 years old. At present I dual boot with Win XP and PCLinuxos LXDE using GRUB The hdd are partitioned: Primary : 133 GB NTFS, XP 100 GB NTFS Storage - extended partition Secondary: 107.4 GB Ext4 PXLinuxOS 1289.7 GB NTFS Storage - extended partition Booting from a SUSE USB stick and using fdisk -l gives : Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x08780877 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 16071 278727749 139355839+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 278727750 488392064 104832157+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 278727813 488392064 104832126 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc6a673c6 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1985 225406975 112702495+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sdb2 225406976 2930274303 1352433664 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb5 2048 225406975 112702464 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdc: 8004 MB, 8004304896 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7633 cylinders, total 15633408 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x31a43a44 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System - USB stick /dev/sdc1 * 64 1374207 687072 83 Linux I wish to replace PCLos with OpenSUSE 12.2 KDE. Am I correct in thinking that this may be done by: Boot from XP CD into recovery console. Use fixmbr to remove GRUB Format or delete the PCLos partition ? Run SUSE installation and use Create Partition Setup followed by Custom Partitioning to set the PCLos partition for SUSE installation. Is 100 GB a reasonable size for SUSE ? I would assume something like 30 GB for / 4 GB for swap 66 GB for /home Accept default for GRUB installation ? What are the differences between installing from live CD/USB stick and DVD ? Sorry for the simple questions but there does not appear to be a great deal of information about this with 12.2 and I would like to get it all clear in my mind before I start. Any advice gratefully received. TIA

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