Can't install 11.1 - fs supposedly faulty

[Nichiren]

Originally Posted by caf4926

Firstly, I did initially say a su terminal in post #2. You just missed it!

Ok, my bad.

Originally Posted by caf4926

Really we could do with knowing what is on ALL the partitions and which one/s you wanted to use for openSUSE.

C has Win7 on it.
D, E, F are data partitions.
I think that should equal sda1 for C and sda2,3,4 for D,E,F respectively, right?

As only F has sufficient free space, I want to put openSuse there.
Turn F into an extended partition, shrink its size and create additional logical partitions for openSuse.

I have 30GB for the openSuse partitions, I think that should be enough?
How would you recommend to divide up the partitions?

[mmarif4u]

You are right to use 30GB, its enough.
I will divide it like this way:
How much is your RAM?

/ (root) 20GB
/home 6GB
swap depends
If your RAM is 2GB, you need at least 3GB swap. You can use max 4GB(should be enough,bcoz double of RAM size is required).
But not less than 2GB for 2GB RAM.

[caf4926]

if you are only going to allocate 30GB. I don't agree with the previous post of giving root 20GB. You could do with 12GB
1GB swap
all the rest to /home

swap is a point often raised - how much?
2 x RAM is usually recommended but not really needed, just avoid suspend to disk.

Yes. Create extended then logicals within.
Decide where you want grub and get your disks in the right boot order to have it on the MBR of the disk you choose.

[Nichiren]

I've got 8 GB of ram
It's really cheap right now, so why not fill up on it? (ddr2 at least... ddr3 ist still a rip-off, while giving next to none performance gains )

In Windows, I've turned off the swap file, since there's no point in it anymore... why swap to the slow hd when I got plenty of ram?

Are you required to have a swap partition, even if you have 8 GB of ram?
Also, in Windows I turned off hibernation, since I don't use it anyway (always turn off instead, saves energy, and it's booting fast enough), and it used an ugly, huge 8 GB hibernation file
Does openSuse use a hibernation file? If yes, how do I turn it off?

Besides that - I've seen that some others use an extra partition for /boot, what's the reason for that? Should I have one, too?

Since ext4 isn't ready yet for 11.1, I wanted to use xfs for the openSuse partitions, would that be ok?

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by Nichiren

I've got 8 GB of ram
It's really cheap right now, so why not fill up on it? (ddr2 at least... ddr3 ist still a rip-off, while giving next to none performance gains )

In Windows, I've turned off the swap file, since there's no point in it anymore... why swap to the slow hd when I got plenty of ram?

Are you required to have a swap partition, (YES) even if you have 8 GB of ram?
Also, in Windows I turned off hibernation, since I don't use it anyway (always turn off instead, saves energy, and it's booting fast enough), and it used an ugly, huge 8 GB hibernation file
Does openSuse use a hibernation file? (NOT EXACTLY) If yes, how do I turn it off? (IT WILL USE SWAP AND YOU CANNOT TURN IT OFF)

Besides that - I've seen that some others use an extra partition for /boot, what's the reason for that? Should I have one, too? (NOT NECESSARY IN MOST CASES)

Since ext4 isn't ready yet for 11.1, I wanted to use xfs for the openSuse partitions, would that be ok?(YES)

Traditionally 2x RAM is given to swap.
Don't make 16GB swap LOL. If it were me I would just go with 2 GB.

Linux uses memory differently than windows, so don't even try and compare use of virtual memory etc...

Suspend to RAM should be OK (if it works in the first place) but suspend to disk would be a problem I guess.

[mmarif4u]

In this case 2GB swap is enough here.
Caf you are right mate about the distribution of space, but that is according to your point of view.
I have 21GB for Linux. 2GB swap(1.5GB RAM), 4GB /home, and the rest of 15GB for root.
I have also an external HDD, so there is no need to put things in the home. I still have 3.5GB empty space in home, after upgrading and installing a lot of softwares.

[Nichiren]

Ok, now that the space distribution has been worked out, let's get back to my original problem.
How do I get the installer to not mark all my partitions as faulty fs, so I can resize F and create the openSuse partitions?

[caf4926]

I would manage and create your partitions first with Parted Magic: Downloads - Parted Magic

Then boot SUSE and try running the installer and use Custom Partitioning.
At this page choose: http://files.myopera.com/carl4926/albums/671478/8.png
create partition setup.

Then here: http://files.myopera.com/carl4926/albums/671478/9.png
custom partitioning

see how you get on.

[Nichiren]

Originally Posted by caf4926

I would manage and create your partitions first with Parted Magic: Downloads - Parted Magic

Then boot SUSE and try running the installer and use Custom Partitioning.
At this page choose: http://files.myopera.com/carl4926/albums/671478/8.png
create partition setup.

Then here: http://files.myopera.com/carl4926/albums/671478/9.png
custom partitioning

see how you get on.

Ok, I'll give it a try.

[Nichiren]

I tried that Parted Magic, but I couldn't find any option to change the primary partition into a extended/logical one...
(Also, how do you change that *ugly* font? )

So I used a different program which could do that and created 30GB unpartitioned space. (I didn't create any partitions, as it didn't support xfs.)

When I then launched the installer, it dropped its ludicrous "inconsistent fs" claim, happily took the unpartitioned space and offered to create its partitions.

It also offered to automatically mount all four of my partitions. I did let it do that and proceeded with the install.
After it was done, it booted into openSuse without a reboot. When I launched the file manager (Dolphin) though, I found that it hadn't mounted any of my partitions, even though it had said it would do so
I've rebooted once, just in case, but after that it still didn't have any of my partitions mounted

Since the installer failed to mount my partitions, how do I get my partitions (sda1-sda4) mounted automatically at every boot w/ full read/write access?

Something else: on my Fedora Live Usb stick with persistent storage, I've created a custom Kde4 colour scheme, which I would also like to use on openSuse. Where are the custom colour schemes saved?