This is on a Dell Inspiron 5423, Win 7 - sp1, 500GB hd. Using Disk manager I reduced the windows partition leaving me with 200+ GB as an extended partition. I then created 3 partitions within the ext. partn, 3, 20, 10.
Using a live cd, started the install, was able to change the recommendations to use the 3 new partitions, swap,
/, and /home. Once the install starts, almost immediately receive the message “failure occurred”, System error was: -3008, /dev/sda5 Device or resource busy.
If anyone has experienced this, or has some wisdom to share, it will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Frank :\
All in all it is better to just start with free space. But how where the partitions formatted? You must use Linux formats you can not use Windows file systems.
If you must do it the way you say be sure that the installer know to reformat the partitions with the correct file systesm
I would support gogalthorp. Remove those three partitions and let the installer find the free space. It will then offer you a partitioning that is most probably very acceptable (though you can change it there and then).
I would support nrickert. My usual approach is similar: first creating the partitions, then running the openSUSE installer, there using ‘create partition setup’ (“expert mode”).
Anyway, by
you mean to say that you created partitions of 3GB for SWAP, 20GB for /, and 10GB for /home, right?
Especially the 10GB for /home is a very small size, which very likely leads to problems with lack of disk space.
It does depend on how you use the computer. For example, if you put all of the multimedia files on a Windows partition, you will need a lot less for “/home”.
To answer a few of the postings since my last one. I talked to Dell about the problem, and in her best english, which was pretty good, she kept answering “we do not recommend that you do that. Dell does not support it.”; and she was quite adept at deflecting my request to talk to Tech support. She was very helpful with indicating that they would send me a restore disk since I did not have access to one, and the backups I had made 2 yrs ago were sadly out of date.
So, I received the diisk, started to run it until it got to the part where it insisted it must reformat the disk; HECK, I can do that, which I did using SystemRescueCd, and KNOPPIX, creating 1/3 (150) for windows, and a single Extended, then subdivided into six logicals: /boot, /, /home, /swap( to be shared ), another /, and another /home, plus about 6GB unused.
Then, after bkup of my own , data from the now defunct win7 install, installed openSUSE 13.2 to the first /, /home and middle swap, of course used ext4.
All is working well, in fact a bunch of stuff I had developed under Cygwin moved easily to my home directory and with few, very few, modifications is working well, as are the apps I usually use.
Fairly happy with it as is, but some questions which I will post in software since they are software questions.
The conclusion I came to was Dell has some sort of software modification that keeps the disk busy the minute you turn on the power, and reports that to any software; the sole exception was KNOPPIX which could see and touch any part of the disk, and using Gparted under it,
i perlformed the final repartitioning and made backups. Final proof of that theory when I try to reinstall Win7.
I* want to thank those who read my original post, and especially those who posted suggestions which I could follow up on. It made solving the problems much easier. Though note I have not yet reinstalled Windows.*