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Chapter 1 ✦ Installing SUSE 10
For more on setting up dual-boot (multiboot) systems, see Chapter 4.
Primary and Extended Partitions
In this section, we start with a clean disk to create the partitions needed to install
SUSE. If you want to remove the partitions on an existing installation of an operat-
ing system, select the partition and press the Delete button. You will be asked to
confirm this, and the partition will be removed.
If you select Create, you are prompted for the type of partition you want to create
(see Figure 1-11). In the PC world, the BIOS can access only four primary partitions.
These can be thought of as four physical boundaries on the disk, with separate data
and filesystems on each. With Linux, you need at least two partitions, and if you
have Windows on another partition, and a data or home disk on the other, you may
quickly run out of ways to expand the way your disk is laid out. To combat this, log-
ical and extended partitions were designed. An extended partition is a placeholder
for further logical partitions, and it is a good idea to create one extended partition
(which takes up one of your primary partitions) and create logical partitions to
accommodate further partitioning schemes in the future.
Figure 1-11: Creating a partition
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