Hello everyone, i’ve been trying to install openSUSE 11.2 side by side with windows 7.
When linux is instaling an od error apears saying: Hard drive is exhausted. What went wrong?
This is how i made preparations.
I shrinked c: partition to make 30 gb for linux. This 30 gb formated into partition L:
when picking partition to instal linux i accepted disk L:
thanx.
P.S. sorry for lame english writing
I think what it is telling you is that there is a problem with the partitioning.
You are only allowed 4 primary partitions, so assuming windows lives on a primary partition, you need to allocate the remaining free space to an extended partition.
After shrinking the windows partition, first exit the install and make sure windows works.
Now, using either windows disk management tools or the install program, allocate the remaining space as an extended partittion and then try the opensuse install.
Never try to install into a windows generated partition. Just leave the space free the install should pick this up create the needed partitions and install. Windows believe it is the only OS on the planet and thus does not play well with others.
Adding to the above advice, I think what happened is the following. You shrunk the Windows main partition. Then you created a new Windows partition using the rest of the disk and put a Windows file system on it (often called Formatting).
Then the installer did find an allreay shrunken Windows main partition (and thus could not shrink it further) and another partition also in use by Windows. Conclusion: nothing free.
What you could have done is only shrink the main Windows partition and left the rest free. Then the installer would have found the free space and offered you a solution (to be accepted by you or not) of three added partions (Swap, / and /home), either as partition 2, 3 and 4 or an extended partition with 5, 6 and 7.
What most people do is just use the instaler, It will offer you to shrink the main Windows partition and then use the created free space as above.
My conclusion: the more you try to do yourself, the more just must know about what you are doing.
i did something else but before this is my configuration of a hard drive before:
100mb system reserved
C: 165.68GB
D: 149.99GB
E: 149.99GB
then i shrink C: to 135.99 GB and got 30 MB of unlocated space; when i tried to instal linux on that kernel doesn’t recognize that;
next thing i did is that i created on that 30 GB partition partition for swap (1GB), partition for root (4GB) and partition for home (the rest of it)(i didn’t give them drive letters);
[and D: and E: merged together so i would have three primary partition;]
linux recognize them and formating began but new error apears at the 91% of the instalation process:
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower/3072MB upper memory)
minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB list possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
grub>setup --stage2/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (nd0)(nd0,4)
Error 22: No such partition
grub>quit
what went wrong now?
P.S. i am managing partitions in windows 7
Try to post the output of
fdisk -l
here. You can do this from the install DVD when you choose for Rescue mode (NOT Repair) in it’s boot menue. Then login witj userroot, no password needed. Try to write down as good as you can or take a camera picture ad post here.
Do not use Windows software for partitioning. At least I would not know what it does. And talking of C, D, E, etc is rather useless here.
Hello Vedran222, would you post an fdisk -l (IIRC, Win7 -> Accessories -> CMD -> /> fdisk -l ) or update you partition display.
BTW, I would have taken the space from E:.
Did you reboot after you downsized the partition? After downsizing did you delete the 30Gb partition? AFAIU, hcvv (#6](http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/install-boot-login/441833-hard-drive-exhausted.html#post2188028)) suggests is that unless you deleted the new 30Gb the install process now sees 4 Win7 formatted partitions.
100mb system reserved
C: 135
: 30
D: 149
E: 149
It would be great if i know userroot login name. Maybe i miss something somewhere O_o
Where i can see my username?
Vedran222 wrote:
> It would be great if i know userroot login name.
the root user login name is always
root
> Maybe i miss something somewhere O_o
only missing a lot of knowledge about Linux…almost all of which is
freely available on line…here is a list to get you started:
http://tinyurl.com/3a5rong
> Where i can see my username?
if you have not yet successfully installed openSUSE you won’t have one
yet…
you will be (or were) asked for the user name you wanted to use…and,
you will (or were) asked for the password you want to use…and, if
you do not check the box immediately under that section in install you
will have the same password for yourself and root (something i highly
discourage…pick a STRONG password for yourself and a VERY STRONG one
for root–do NOT forget either)
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tararpharazon:
You have Winows 7 and opensuse on one computer. Do you have issues with Windows’s updates?
I made an attempt to install opensuse 11.2 on a computer with Windows 7. The usual way I was doing with Windows XP didn’t work - booting into Windows 7 was not possible.
Could you please tell me more details about boot configuration of your computer:
In Yast, in Boot Loader Options, in Boot Menu, which boxes have you checked: [Set active Flag in Partition Table for Boot Partition]; [Write generic Boot Code to MBR] ?
In Yast, in Boot Loader Location, which boxes gave you checked: [Boot from Master Boot Record]; [Boot from Root Partition]; [Boot from Boot Partition]; [Boot from Extended Partition]?
Thanks.
I will open a new thread Title: Dual boot Windows 7
ok?
Sorry, I was not typing thouroughly enough. I should have typed
“… user root …”
But DenverD is also correct. Try to get some basic information bout Unix/Linux.
And why we are talking about partitioning, this may me usefull to you: SDB:Basics of partitions, filesystems, mount points - openSUSE
It is still important we get this output to help you.
And do not get embarrassed by posts here about not your problem. Often people do not read the whole thread from top to bottom, but only answer to what they think the question is after reading the last post or so. Thus answers about using YaST to add boot entries are to be skipped, because you do not even have done an install.
Hi, this is my fdisk -l
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Your link for the image is wrong. Try posting it again.
Vedran222, I think what happened was this (this will cover some old ground):
Originally you had what I consider to be a fairly typical Windows 7 setup (I have had arguments about this with certain other posters) of
Partition 1: 100MB System Recovery (contains BCD code) and
Partition 2: 165GB Boot Partition for Windows 7 (contains the system files)
Partition 3: 150GB NTFS data
Partition 4: 150GB NTFS data
However, Windows 7 insists on starting its two partitions (1 and 2) on 1MB boundaries but does not seem to worry what happens after that. Hence, you have about 990kB free space before the start of the first partitions which we can write in as:
free space :990kB
Partition 1: 100MB System Recovery (contains BCD code) and
Partition 2: 165GB Boot Partition for Windows 7 (contains the system files)
Partition 3: 150GB NTFS data
Partition 4: 150GB NTFS data
You then shrunk Partition 2 from 165GB to 135GB and attempted to combine Partitions 3 and 4 into a single Partition leaving you with three Partitions. Unfortunately, what appears to have happened is this:
free space: 990kB -> Partition 1: 990kB
Partition 1: 100MB -> Partition 2: 100MB
Partition 2: 165GB -> Partition 3: 135GB
Partitions 3 and 4 plus the 30GB freed from the original Partition 2 -> Partition 4 330GB
Thus, you have no more Partition slots in which to install Suse. What I think you need to do is:
Delete Partition 1
Renumber Partition 2 to Partition 1
Renumber Partition 3 to Partition 2
Delete Partition 4 (if you have no usable data on it)
Then install Suse to the space left over from Partition 4.
If you did have useful data on the two original 150GB partitions then we may be able to recover that with Testdisk before you do anything else.
Hope that helps.
I agree with you about the split.
I think he should move the unallocated space to the rear of the drive, or just take 30Gb from partition 4. I don’t know what that 1 block represents to a SFS filesystem or how deleting it will affect his drive or Windows install.
We know he has 4 allocated partitions. Now he just has to free up/unallocate 30Gb of space, so he can format and install Linux. It’s a 2 step process right? Create a 30Gb unallocated partition with Partition Magic or Gparted, reboot and use his Linux installation disks?
What is that about partition magic? Some say it’s bad program, others say it’s not. If it’s good program then i’ll try manage partitions by it instead of windows 7 disk management.
And the thing is that i cann’t delete, rename or resize partitions in YaST, so maybe i must install Gparted (how and is it worthy of trying).
The other problem is that windows allocates all its partitions as primary and not extended,which is what I told homin my original post. You are only alloweda max of 4 primary partitions, so he needs to create the new partition as extended and add the linux partitions to that.
whych is correct. As yyou have 4 primary artition you can not add partitions. For thatyou need one promary partition to make it extended (and extended artition si f course also a primary one, fter althe expended was invented to extend beyond the restriction of four). And then within tthaa etended you can make a lott of logical partitions. Like one for the lost primary one and on for Liunux swap and oone for Lnux / and mmaybe one for Linux /home, etc. (when you have space enough).
As it is now I only can advise to offload the to Windows data partitions (#3 and #4), delete them, make an extended (will get #3) and the create more inside the extended (will get from #5 onwards).
My bad. Over looked the use of Win7 disk manager. And Whych was correct if you had created 4 primary partitions, but you could’ve moved files areound and reconfigured partitions 3 and 4 as extended partitions.
I suggest downloading the free*** Gparted LiveCD ISO*** and burn a copy to CD/CD-RW.
Best to follow the excellent graphic documentation on the Gparted web site for resizing partitions to create your 30Gb of unallocated free space.
Sorry only English, French or Spanish translations. Then try installing Linux.
IMHO, you can convert partition 3 or 4, or 3 and 4 to extended partitions.
