I’ve currently installed Windows 7 RC x64 on one of my four partitions and wanted to install openSuse 11.1 x64 alongside it.
So I downloaded the install dvd, burned it and booted off it. It runs well, until it comes to “Disk”.
There, it claimed that all four of my partitions supposedly have an “inconsistent file system”
One I might have understood, but all four?
It therefore wanted to format all four of them :silly:
I exited and went back to Windows, where I ran chkdsk on all four partitions, using “Automatically fix filesystem errors”. Not surprisingly, it didn’t find anything.
I’ve then re-run the installer, but it still insisted that the fs of all four partitions are inconsistent :sick:
So I have then re-run chkdsk again for all four partitions (still nothing), run the verification for the installer (which didn’t come up with any errors), and I’ve also run the memory test, two full passes - which didn’t find any errors either (yet wasted almost two full hours).
Still, the installer insists on its lunacy with the “inconsistent fs” >:(
What can I do to bring some sense into its head?
Besides that, why doesn’t the installer support 1920x1200 - or any widescreen resolutions at all, at that?
The best I can do is 1600x1200, but that results in anything being stretched like chewing gum, looking ugly.
I just had a Fedora 11 Live handy and used that.
This is the result, although I doubt it’s of any use, as fdisk didn’t want to output anything :messed:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ fdisk
Usage: fdisk -l] -b SSZ] -u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0
or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)
...
[liveuser@localhost ~]$
I’ve then launched the file manager (Dolphin), and it showed all four partitions just fine, including their contents, with no problems whatsoever.
I could also write to them (the above Konsole log was written to one of them).
I’ve then taken a look at the man pages and tried out cfdisk, but it didn’t want to display anything either.
Any other ideas?
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?
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.
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.
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 :sick: )
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? rotfl!
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?
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.
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?
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? :sick: )
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?
