George Markomanolis wrote: > Mac can run Windows, only with a special tool but I don't know something > more. When I bought laptop, it came with windows xp pro. When I tried to > install SL 4.4, it didn't let me to choose a partition in order to make a > dual boot, I could install SL 4.4 only in entire hard disk and I did it (I > erased windows). After, I tried to make it dual boot, I tried windows xp pro > (IBM has recovery data on partition that SL erased it), Suse 9.3, 10.1, 10.2 > and every OS couldn't make installation, because couldn't find my hard disk. > I couldn't do anything. If I had SL 4.4 on my laptop, no other OS could be > in dual boot. I was ready to send laptop for service. I tried many live cds > for recovery with many tools for hard disk recovery and didn't work > anything. I was lucky that I had a windows 98 boot cd, I erased boot loader > and I installed other OS. Maybe I had this problem because laptop has > pci-express controller for hard disk. I don't know at all. I must also say > that I tried and SL 4.3 and I had the same problems. I think SL does provide an option to check how the partitions are setup during installation, however I am not sure how user-friendly the process is if you want to customize them. Probably others have more background on this.