helric

How many gentoo users do we have out here?Recently started delving into it, and i am extatic. It has the command line cabalities of apt-get (debians source grabber) using emerege. Love how it automatically downloads and installs the sources from a source tree. Makes things alot easier.

download a copy of partition magic and get to partitioning! This will compress your current windows partition, and chop off whatever u need at the end. This way you wont need to reformat this partition. Toss in the linux installation media and away you go. Be sure to install on the ext filesystem (as this is your linux partition). Dont forget to make a swap partition too, (good rule of thumb is to make it double the size of your current total memory. i.e 128 megs of ram = 256 meg linux swap partition.) There are a number of boot loaders you can choose from to select the operating system when you boot up. The default boot loader with suse is (lilo) i think. But i would look into grub boot loader (it has a very nice splash screen you can customize.)