After this happened, I ran the install and before I even started anything I went to the shell but cfdisk and fdisk are not available. How can I partition this drive so I can finish the install?
I find that hard to believe. The fdisk, cfdisk. sfdisk are in /sbin. You can try the fullname: /sbin/fdisk. But I suggest restarting the installation.
I tried both cfdisk and fdisk from sbin, from root with /sbin, and even did an ls on sbin, these commands are not in the shell you can run pre-installation from a net install CD
On 08/12/2011 11:46 AM, psytropic wrote:
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> I tried both cfdisk and fdisk from sbin, from root with /sbin, and even
> did an ls on sbin, these commands are not in the shell you can run
> pre-installation from a net install CD
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>
did you get the install media from software.opensuse.org, or some other
place? Where?
Did you md5 or sha1 check the .iso prior to burning the install disk?
Did you burn the disk as slow as you could set your burner?
Did you proof test the install disk by doing this before the install:
http://tinyurl.com/2ebcf27 ?
If not, please, boot from the install media, check it now and report
results back to this thread.
if you check the disk and it is good (without those disk executables i
don’t understand how it can be ‘good’…hmmm, maybe those are downloaded
during install also??)…well, you may have to download and burn a live
CD (or a PartedMagic) cd to reformat…
by the way, i’ve never ever heard of an openSUSE install which presented
a proposed partitioning scheme for the users approval and then did
something entirely different! what scheme did it show you and you agree to?
like the one presented here
https://picasaweb.google.com/107564133608385811033/114_Install#5577870919351705618
hmmmmm, did you click “Expert Partitioning”
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CD Verfied I am not in the GUI yet, I am in the text preinstall environment. I go to Expert and then to Start Shell.
That is where I am given the option to create swap if I continue from this text menu and do not go into the shell, this all starts before the GUI is even loaded.
On 08/13/2011 02:26 AM, psytropic wrote:
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> CD Verfied I am not in the GUI yet, I am in the text preinstall
> environment. I go to Expert and then to Start Shell.
two things: i’ve never done a network install and i’ve never been in a
“text preinstall environment” gone to “Expert” and then to a shell…so,
you are WAY ahead of me on expert experience…that said, then lets
move to:
> That is where I am given the option to create swap if I continue from
> this text menu and do not go into the shell, this all starts before the
> GUI is even loaded.
it has happened before that i don’t understand either the problem or the
expert/experience level of the help requester! i am not an expert and
perhaps i do not understand your problem!
the subject of this thread is “Network install partitioned entire disk
as swap” yet now you write “That is where I am given the option to
create swap” which means to me that it was not “network install” that
partitioned the partitioned entire disk as swap" but, it was you the
user who decided to do that… (i have to wonder why you wanted to do
that, but never mind) just undo it and don’t elect to partition the
entire disk as swap the next time!
by the way: if you do not click Expert the install system will ‘look’ at
your system and recommend a partitioning scheme based on the disks and
other operating systems (if any) it sees are available…
and, i’ve never heard of the install script suggesting filling an entire
disk with a swap partition…maybe some or all of these might be helpful:
http://tinyurl.com/3jrm8r8
http://tinyurl.com/32g4nmp
http://tinyurl.com/5krulv
http://tinyurl.com/24fkb2d
http://tinyurl.com/4nywklf
http://tinyurl.com/6znj7wt
http://tinyurl.com/48f6uba
if i don’t understand your problem, please wait for competent help or
post again with clarification of your actual problem…
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See that’s the issue, when in the GUI Installer I go to the Expert Partitioner and try to write a new table but the entire drive is being used by the installer so I can not unmount it. If there was a way to partition the drive BEFORE the installer starts. And yes the installer wil usually recommend a partition setup only I get a message saying it can not do that and I should use the expert partitioner.
I really do appreciate the help, I have never done a net install like this before because the last time I did a net install it never asked about activating a swap partition before the GUI started.
Look at the slideshow in the link I posted before. It describes a net install using expert partitioner (in a virtual machine but it doesn’t matter). Nothing is mounted at this point.
Absolutely. Boot with PartedMagic, create all the partitions you need and select them later when you install openSUSE in the Expert Partitioner. Actually if you create the paritions in advance, you have to use the Expert Partitioner. Think about using “Create partition setup” and NOT “Edit partition setup”!
Just FYI I found the solution for anyone ever having this issue.
On 08/14/2011 04:36 AM, psytropic wrote:
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> ‘SDB:Installation with little memory - openSUSE’
next time you post a system problem while using hardware which is less
than that recommended <http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware_requirements>,
mention that please!
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!