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Question #78969 on Ubuntu changed:
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    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi :)

Glad you got the Ubuntu Cd through shipit :)
During the install process when you get to the "Partitioning Section" choose "Manual Partitioning".  It's the bottom of 3 options and is easy to miss because the other 2 options have a nice graphic showing the hard-drive but "Manual Partitioning" doesn't.  When you choose this option the installer will rescan your drives which is a slightly scary moment if you're not expecting it!  Then it will show a new page of the installer which should show all your partitions :)  Edit sda6 to set it's "Mount Point" to "/" and edit sda7 to set it's "Mount Point" to "/home".  Note that if you have a separate /home then Ubuntu itself only needs about 5Gb, 10Gb would be hugely generous ;)  

Also note that different linux distros can share the same /home
partition as well as sharing the swap.  However i think openSUSE also
uses the gnome desktop so it would be wise to give your ubuntu install a
different username than you use in openSUSE otherwise the desktops
environments could get a bit confused.  I think the way you are giving
each a separate /home is probably safer until you've had chance to
explore Ubuntu a lot and got used to it a bit more.  After all both
openSUSE and Ubuntu will be able to read and write to each other's
spaces quite easily enough anyway :)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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