I’m fairly new to opensuse and I ran into a problem that I have no clue how to solve. While doing a dual-boot installation with windows 7 on a 2TB SATA disk, the installer failed to create the partitions under the extended partition i.e. swap, /home, / and a share mounted under windows (but it also failed without this shared option). The error code is -1007 and it happened 5 times (number of failed attempts), at the disc preparation step, also with the default values suggested by the installer. Btw I was using DVD iso images that successfully installed on the laptop.
Is it to do with the disk: size, etc?
Thank you in advance.
You don’t mention the vendor but some vendors use all four of the available primary partitions when installing Windows 7; however you do it, the only way to get round this is to shrink the Windows data partition and delete one of the vendor’s partitions so that you have enough space in which to create an extended partition and the necessary logical partitions. Normally the two vendor’s partitions are too small on their own to accept a Linux distro.
However, the fact that you got as far as you did suggests that this is not the problem. Put in the DVD and go as far as ‘Analysing the system’; then post back the description of the existing partitions and their sizes.
Thank you and sorry for the very late reply, I had travelled. As I tried to get you the Info you requested for, I managed to create the extended partition and the installation went to completion. However, I first created a huge /home partition that I trimmed afterwards to make space for an FAT32 shared partition. The vendor is SAMSUNG, if that is still useful.
Thank you again.