Can't install 11.1 - fs supposedly faulty

[ijbreakey]

Hi,

An easy way is to edit your fstab to mount everything, but I'm a GUI kind of guy so you can also do it using Yast Partitioner.

Open Yast then click on System then Partitioner.

Click on the plus next to Hard Disks and then choose sda, which will then show all the partitions on your hard disk.



Choose the first of the 3 windows made partitions (sda1) and then click edit.



It should automatically mount it as /windows/C but if not then you can type it in manually. Next click fstab options under Mounting Options.



Make sure dmask is set to 002 instead of the default 022. This will allow you to write to your windows partitions.

When you're done choose Ok, then Finish. Click on your second partition and repeat the process, then your third partition and repeat the process. Now that you have all your windows partitions mounted click finish and let it do its thing.

Restart your computer and you should have full read/write access to your windows partitions.

Take Care,

Ian

[caf4926]

If after following Ian's wonderful response, you still have trouble. Open a terminal and become su and do:

fdisk -l

then

cat /etc/fstab

Post result of both

[Nichiren]

Originally Posted by ijbreakey

An easy way is to edit your fstab to mount everything, but I'm a GUI kind of guy so you can also do it using Yast Partitioner.

Open Yast then click on System then Partitioner.
...

Nice, I prefer Gui stuff myself.
btw, where did you get that theme from?

Back to my second question, where are the custom Kde4 colour schemes saved?

[Nichiren]

Originally Posted by Nichiren

Nice, I prefer Gui stuff myself.
btw, where did you get that theme from?

Back to my second question, where are the custom Kde4 colour schemes saved?

Ok, I got the partitions mounted now
Now I could finally access the Ati 9.6 Linux driver, which I had already downloaded to one of them. It's a file with .run extension. Just, how do you run it? If I click it in Dolphin, it just opens KWrite
Right-clicking it just offers more text editors, no option to run it.
So, how do you run it?

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by Nichiren

Ok, I got the partitions mounted now
Now I could finally access the Ati 9.6 Linux driver, which I had already downloaded to one of them. It's a file with .run extension. Just, how do you run it? If I click it in Dolphin, it just opens KWrite
Right-clicking it just offers more text editors, no option to run it.
So, how do you run it?

in console
make it executable with chmod +x file.run
and then run it ./file.run

the ATI drivers are actually enclosed in a shell script (the .run file)

[ijbreakey]

Originally Posted by Nichiren

Nice, I prefer Gui stuff myself.
btw, where did you get that theme from?

I use compiz-fusion instead of the native Kwin effects. The window decoration theme applies to emerald.

Windows Aero KDE-Look.org

My plasma theme is windows 7 (vistar7)

Take Care,

Ian

[rj22]

Originally Posted by Nichiren

I've currently installed Windows 7 RC x64 on one of my four partitions and wanted to install openSuse 11.1 x64 alongside it.
...
... it claimed that all four of my partitions supposedly have an "inconsistent file system"

As a comment on this thread, I had the same "inconsistent fs" message when I tried to install openSuse 11.1 on my HP8510p.

The reason appears to be that the 8510p came with the disk already divided into 4 primary partitions - Windows, recovery, tools, and some small empty partition. Four partitions is the maximum, and the installer can't create the extended partition it needs for linux.

Apparently it won't suggest deleting a partition.

Anyone else who gets this message for a disk with four primary partitions, delete one of the primary partitions (e.g. the recovery partition using HP menu options) and re-run the installer.

The error message is confusing. Most users won't be able to guess the number of partitions is the problem. It would be much clearer to have some error filter say "Number of allowed partitions will be exceeded" or some such.