I have a total of 6 drives in my old server, and the base drive I want to install on is a 40 GB Drive. I did have Ubuntu Samba Server install and so I bring up installation just fine, but when it comes to partitioning that drive, its says: Cannot remove partition /FileServer/root or something like that. I want to completely wipe the drives so I dont get this error.
And how would I go about setting up the partition once all the drives are cleaned and empty?
I want to use only the 40GB Drive for my OS and then the other 320 GB Drives for Samba Sharing
I have a total of 6 drives in my old server, and the base drive I want to install on is a 40 GB Drive. I did have Ubuntu Samba Server install and so I bring up installation just fine, but when it comes to partitioning that drive, its says: Cannot remove partition /FileServer/root or something like that. I want to completely wipe the drives so I dont get this error.
And how would I go about setting up the partition once all the drives are cleaned and empty?
I want to use only the 40GB Drive for my OS and then the other 320 GB Drives for Samba Sharing
Is this a openSUSE 11.4 (32 or 64 bit) boot disk and is it the DVD or a LiveCD boot disk? If you are booting from a CD, you should be able to remove and replace any partition. You can’t do this to a mounted partition inside of a different or older running version of Linux also openSUSE presently uses grub legacy boot manager while Ubuntu was using the newer grub2. You have to take some addition installation actions to integrate openSUSE with the grub2 boot loader from Ubuntu if you wanted to do that. A more detailed error message you were getting might be helpful.
You can boot from a live system like Parted Magic and remove this partition with gparted from there. Actually you should always remove partitions from a live system. You can also wipe out the partition table using a command like the following one as root in a terminal:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=512 count=1
sdx being one of sda, sdb, sdc, etc.
This is a destructive command. So make sure you apply it on the right disk!
Ok so more information, I downloaded the Live Gnome version of OpenSUSE 11.4 my server has 600 MB of ram which is slow lol, but regardless I can still install so is there a way to partition and clean a drive from this? I made sure to burn the ISO of Live Gnome OpenSUSE 11.4 onto a DVD
I previously had Ubuntu Server 11.10 installed and now when I try to boot into Ubuntu Server it doesn’t want to anymore. I just want a clean drive to work with
Thanks for that tip, now is the GUI text based or does it have an actually interface? And I found a solution, enter the raid controller, recreated the raid and it wiped the drives clean
Thanks for that tip, now is the GUI text based or does it have an actually interface? And I found a solution, enter the raid controller, recreated the raid and it wiped the drives clean
Happy to hear you found your problem. Not sure what you mean by does it have an interface. You can run YaST in Graphic mode or text mode. In text mode I think it is using ncurses as its gui interface I suppose you might say, but there are really only two. Text or Graphic but when in the text mode, you can do your own thing as with the bash shell or use something like ncurses as YaST does.
Ok as in Graphic Interface I mean I want a desktop to work with since Im still learning the OpenSUSE commands and fun stuff, eventually I will revert back to text based instead.
The suggestion to install openSUSE in the text mode was made in case being low on memory was your problem (which you determined to be a Raid partition problem instead). In any event running the installation in the text mode does not stop you from loading GNOME or KDE and seeing if it works when the installation is complete though that might not have worked either. Since you found your problem, I would just try to install openSUSE normally and see what you get though I think I would stick with the 32 bit version when so low on memory.
