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Linux Question

furryrabidbunny

furryrabidbunny

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I have an old hp desktop with two partitions... one for recovery and the actual c drive with documents and functioning windows. I just downloaded suse 10 and want to install it (already know Tiger and Xp, why not linux?). If i select automatic partition... is yast smart enough to shrink down the c partion with everything in it and not touch the recovery partition?
 
furryrabidbunny said:
I have an old hp desktop with two partitions... one for recovery and the actual c drive with documents and functioning windows. I just downloaded suse 10 and want to install it (already know Tiger and Xp, why not linux?). If i select automatic partition... is yast smart enough to shrink down the c partion with everything in it and not touch the recovery partition?
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Don't think so. I'm no linux expert, but I think you'd be better off using a third party app to adjust your partitions and make room for SuSE.
 
What's the recovery partition for? Is it different from the CDs that come with the computer?
 
My only fear is that it will really mess it up... get rid of the recovery partition and merge the c and d all into one. I am thinking about copying the recovery onto my backup hard drive, and creating an iso of it and burning a dvd on my mac just to be safe.
 
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