after a joyous year of not being able to partition my hard drive, and nobody being able to help, i have finally done it. my hdd is now in 2 parts. hoorah. new problem now. installing linux. i have downloaded debian but it is corrupt or something. i am now downloading fedora. my question is, how do i install while guaranteeing that my windows os stays intact? do i select my 2nd partition as the active partition before booting the installation cd? will it give me the option of where to install? im a little nervous as i do not have enough space left on my hard drive for a backup image. i have roxio goback but its a bit crap. anyone? i know you will read this shiva. did your suse installation ask you where you wanted to install linux?