installing linux questions

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Ok, well i have installed linux before. The situation is different now, so making it easier :D

Ok, there are 3 hard drives in the pc:
12 gb (1x 6.5gb for windows, rest unparitioned)
20 gb unpartitioned
20 gb unpartitioned

What would be easiest, best way to install linux? im going to install suse, as its only one i currently have downloaded.
 
U-Toast,

The 2nd or 3d HDD is good to go for installing linux. You can leave the first drive to be of windows filesystem and any of the other drive to use linux filesystem.
 
I would recomend downloading fedora core 3 first, Unless you have the professional version of suse, the personal version is lacking a lot of features that are needed to compile programs and more. Either way I would just install it to another hard drive and leave your windows HD alone. If you want to learn to dual boot i would use the extra hard drive to learn on. Dual booting can get tricky soemtimes and I owuldnt learn on a HD if you need the data.
 
the coolest way would be use the 12 as the sys partition ( 100mb /boot, swap (double the ram in mb so 128ram is a 256mb swap), then use the rest of the space for the os. Use software RAID (i know its not hardware but its fun) RAID 1, so the two 20gig drive mirror each other and use them for files you dont want to lose, your mp3s,porn,pics, what ever.
 
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