Hello,
I downloaded the KDE version of OpenSuse (11.1) and bootet from that live cd an everything was fine. I had a first look at the system and I could everything. But because it as late at night I said to myself “Better install it tomorrow”. And today I did exactly the same and the screen “Linux Kernel is loading” appeard. But after that there was darkness for ten minutes. Nothing happened. I even made a new disk but this didn’t work either. Now I’m wondering who it can happen that yesterday everything worked and today nothing does.
One more information:
When I click fail safe settings it works well until the installation because he oesn’t recognize the harddisk.
My system:
Acer Aspire 5920G with Windows Vista
Intel Core 2 duo CPU T7300 (2GHz)
VGA Bios Version: Nvidia 0.84.41.00.18
If it’s a live cd. Don’t start the installer when you boot from Failsafe. Open a terminal konsole and type su hit enter a couple of times and now type this: fdisk -l
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 310 2490043+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 311 979 5373742+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 932 979 385528+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 311 897 4715014+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 898 931 273073+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Platten-Reihenfolge
I want to install it on the second HDD (dev/sdb).
I hope that helps and thanks for your effort.
Clionel
Well it tells me your HD is recognised.
Try the installer again. You could always try adding these boot arguments to failsafe:acpi=off** edd=off**
Unless they are already there.
Else get the DVD, you have more options to get round issues
Disk /dev/sdb: 8053 MB, 8053063680 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 979 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00061c15
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 310 2490043+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 311 979 5373742+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 932 979 385528+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 311 897 4715014+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 898 931 273073+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Hi,
I went through the installer a couple of minutes ago and he gave me the error that the partition couldn’t be formatted with ext3. The was also an error code of -3009.
When I format it in the terminal with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb I don’t get an error. But why do I get it during the installation?
I’m a little confused about it.
So could you please help me?
Clionel
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 310 2490043+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 311 979 5373742+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 932 979 385528+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 311 897 4715014+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 898 931 273073+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
why are the 2 swap partitions?
Do you need to keep data on sdb at all? It could do with partitioning nicely.
Hi,
I want to keep Vista and I still have it! Don’t worry;)
My first question is how I can make a root with 20GB when I only have 8GB at all? I know see that I haven’t told you that the hard disk is actually a USB-stick. Maybe one of you could tell me how I should do it. Maybe it’s really a problem with that USB stick and OpenSuse doesn’t work with it. In this case just tell me.
Bye
Clionel
Honestly it’s not a good idea. Certainly you can make a bootable usb stick, one good way is to use: UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads
But to Install to a usb stick! I think the performance would be like treacle in a snow-storm.
Hi,
well thank you for letting me know that it’s not such a good idea. My problem is just that my hard disk is almost full and so I was looking for an alternative. Maybe you have more of them?
And can anyone please tell me the pros and cons of such a bootable stick? That would be very kind
Bye
Clionel
A bootable usb pen drive is handy to carry around with you. I have a knoppix drive like this. It’s very handy for some aspects of my work.
Otherwise there is little substitute for sufficient HD space.
