hi folk’s, ive just purchased a samsung rv520 with win 7 installed, and planning to add 12.1 (gnome) will this install from live cd as did my 11.3 against xp, or is there somthing i should be aware of!!
your advice’s as alway’s …appreciated.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:56:02 +0000, diamond1902 wrote:
> hi folk’s, ive just purchased a samsung rv520 with win 7 installed, and
> planning to add 12.1 (gnome) will this install from live cd as did my
> 11.3 against xp, or is there somthing i should be aware of!!
> your advice’s as alway’s …appreciated.
Should work fine. I installed on a desktop and a laptop both with Win7
installed and the install went fine (now I used the full DVD put on a USB
flash drive, but the live media should work just fine as well).
Of course, backups before you start are always a good idea.
Jim
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Might want to look real close at the current partitioning. If there are 4 partitions (Some hardware makers are doing that) one must be removes and replaced with a extended partitions.
it does have 4 partition’s!!..i hate it when thing’s start to get complicated:( as ive only had the laptop a few day’s im very concerned about muffing it up so early in it’s life lol
thanks’ jim, any advice regard’s samsung partitioning set up?? …no need to back up as nothing added to it as yet apart from antivirus/firewall,
To make it simple for everyone, boot from a linux live CD, open a terminal, and post the output of the following command:
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
Then we can see if your 4th. primary partition is an extended one or not.
ok! will sort and get back…cheer’s.
as requested…
Disk identifier: 0xd939cb7c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 371402751 185597952 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 371402752 928421887 278509568 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda4 928421888 976773119 24175616 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda5 371404800 928421887 278508544 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
linux:/home/linux #
output from fdisk as requested
as requested…
Disk identifier: 0xd939cb7c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 371402751 185597952 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 371402752 928421887 278509568 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda4 928421888 976773119 24175616 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda5 371404800 928421887 278508544 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
linux:/home/linux #
On 2012-04-17 12:26, diamond1902 wrote:
> as requested…
Please, use code tags. Advanced editor, ‘#’ button. And that is not the
complete output from the command.
The good news is that you have an extended partition.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
my inexperiance show’s sorry!
i will re do fdisk correctly and return,many thank’s carlos
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 371402751 185597952 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 371402752 928421887 278509568 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 928421888 976773119 24175616 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda5 371404800 928421887 278508544 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Your largest partition is /dev/sda5, making this relatively easy, I would resize /dev/sda5 to make free space for Linux, from there the easiest way is to allow the installer to set up the needed partitions for you.
However the partitions are not in order and the numbering of your your logical partitions will change, this may or maynot mater to windows, but can be fixed.
[edit] added info.
numbering of your your logical partitions will change, this may or maynot mater to windows,
I read this part of your output incorrectly, you don’t have an issue here.
thank’s henry…i re did fdisk and it came up with same answer / no additional info so not sure what carlos ment!?
or as usual im doing it wrong…i do love suse but hate getting it set up right! and dont alway’s have the time to spend educating myself properly, i do appreciate all you expert guy’s…thanks and best regard’s,J.
Just resize sda5 to give you the free space you want for Linux, you can do this from windows or from a Linux liveCD with Gparted, then start the install, the installer will create the partitions for you.
Double check that the installer is only using the free space, and not altering any existing partitions.
On 2012-04-20 14:56, diamond1902 wrote:
>
> thank’s henry…i re did fdisk and it came up with same answer / no
> additional info so not sure what carlos ment!?
Like this:
>
> Telcontar:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000ccd24
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 63 417689 208813+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 * 417690 819314 200812+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 819315 1220939 200812+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda4 1220940 976768064 487773562+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5 1221003 32676209 15727603+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 32676273 53641034 10482381 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda7 53641098 95586749 20972826 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 95586813 221423894 62918541 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 221423958 263369609 20972826 83 Linux
> /dev/sda10 263369673 294824879 15727603+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda11 294824943 319998734 12586896 fd Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda12 319998798 976735934 328368568+ 83 Linux
> Telcontar:~ #
Complete command, and inside code tags.
> or as usual im doing it wrong…i do love suse but hate getting it
> set up right! and dont alway’s have the time to spend educating myself
> properly, i do appreciate all you expert guy’s…thanks and best
> regard’s,J.
We already said that you can reduce the size of sda5 and put Linux in the
free space there.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Do it from Windows! There are not many things I would recommend to do from Windows. Actually I would suggest not using Windows at all. 
But when it comes to resizing Windows partitions, then do it from Windows!
thank’s guy’s, sorry carlos missunderstood your post regarding correct input for fdisk,i will proceed with resizing sda5
and let you know how i get on…once again many thank’s