Hi,
I recently acquired Windows 7 professional n installed it on my 32 bit laptop…My problem is that I am trying to dual boot my machine so I can have OpenSuse 11.2 but everytime I try to install OpenSuse 11.2, the installer keeps on giving me this error message “The operating system is not currently supported by the installer”. What can i do to fix this problem?
At what point do you get this error message?
Are you trying to install from within Windows by any chance?
Have you looked here, in particular “How To Proceed” ?
IG
You can’t install 64 bit if the machine is 32.
But you can install 32 if the machine is 64
To install you must set the cd/dvd drive to first boot device in the BIOS.
Then boot with SUSE DVD in the drive.
NEW Users - Suse-11.2 Pre-installation – PLEASE READ - openSUSE Forums
Thread title is correct, but I have a different problem.
Doing an install (not update) I didn’t like the look of the partitioning scheme. I have 2 drives, one with Windows and a larger one with opensuse 11.1. The partitioner was giving me two linux swap partitions and one was on the windows drive. It mixed ext3 and ext4. I backed out and tried expert partitioning. The suggested partitions gave me this:
sda1 2.01 GB linux swap
sda2 20 GB linux native ext3
sda3 164.30 GB linux native ext3
sdb1 14GB HPFS/NTFS
sdb2 23.27 GB extended
sdb5 500 MB linux swap
I didn’t like that any better although it looked more like what I expected. I backed out and let the partitioner work automatically since I was afraid there was something new I didn’t understand.
What I ended up with was a grub menu that has 11.2, 11.1, Windows, and a floppy. All three OS’s boot. This is not what I want! I now guess I should have gone for “update” rather than “install”
The install went quickly and 11.2 looks really good. I don’t have much invested in the install right now. Should I re-install? and if so, how do I get it right?
When I boot 11.1, Dolphin sees 2 ext4 partitions but won’t let me into them. The good news is, I didn’t have to back up my stuff. Everything is there! 
It’s really a matter of understanding partitioning. Custom is the way to go. Delete the newly formed 11.2 / (root)
I’m assuming you used the existing /home and that now 11.2 and 11.1 are sharing it? Or did you end up with another /home as well??
If post a fdisk -l
And tell us which partition is which, that might help
You’ll need to Delete the extra swap on the windows drive.
Is the Linux drive set 1st in BIOS and is Grub on it’s MBR?
Doing this one step at a time.
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e8d94Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 24321 172281060 83 LinuxDisk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x938b938bDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1828 14675377 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 1828 4865 24402704 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 1828 1891 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 1892 3081 9558643+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 3082 4865 14329948+ 83 LinuxDisk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe24ce24cDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 9728 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
I didn’t intend to save /home as I backed up the important stuff. Also, I thought a clean install, without the old /home would be a better install. I was willing to try ext4. This sdc is an external usb hard drive that I keep the backups on.
sysinfo:/ says this:
/dev/sda2 ext3 20.0GB
/dev/sdc1 ntfs-3g 74.5 GB
/home ext4 13.5GB – 12.0 GB available
/windows/C ntfs-3g 13.7 GB – 8.0 GB available
/dev/sd3 ext3 164.3 GB
/ ext4 9.0 GB – 5.4 GB available
The big sda3 partition doesn’t show any of it being used. However, under the “available space” heading, there is no entry.
Going to reboot to check BIOS. Trying to remember how to find location of GRUB…
Checking BIOS, sda is Primary Master (the 200GB drive) and sdb is Primary Slave (40GB) and hold the Windows install. My secondary master and slave are DVD drives.
Forget how to check for grub.
BTW,even though this is wrong, using 11.2 is working out great.
Prexy, if you boot into Windows and go to Disk Management, you should be able to remove all those Linux partitions that you don’t need on sda and sdb. Just leave the NTFS partition alone.
Windows 7 will allow you to resize the NTFS partition if you need to do so. I think Vista will do it too, but XP will not have that feature. I don’t know which you are running.
Then when you boot from the 11.2 DVD again, it won’t have all those previous partitions to confuse it. It should automatically select something better to start with and you can edit them a little if needed.
For clarification:
I will have some unpartitioned space on the Windows disk? It is an old install of W2K Pro that came with this white box. I’m not too worried about dead space.
I remove the 11.1 partition? How do I get it back so that 11.2 will use it? I have always let suse do my partitioning automagically.
So 11.2 installed on sdb
If I understand correctly. You want to remove 11.1 and use 11.2 and have the windows install as well.
To do this you will have to re-install 11.2
In the partitioning stage you can delete the partitions:
/dev/sdb2 1828 4865 24402704 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 1828 1891 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 1892 3081 9558643+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 3082 4865 14329948+ 83 Linux
and expand the windows sdb1 to use all the space you just freed up.
Install 11.2 to sda
You can use the existing partitions but format them to ext4 (so do you need to backup anything in /home?)
This might help you get the feel of things:
11.2slideshow.odp.zip - Windows Live
Ok. I did what I was told and here is what I got:
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e8d94Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 24321 172281060 83 LinuxDisk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x938b938bDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4866 39082648+ 7 HPFS/NTFSDisk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe24ce24cDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 9728 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
PERFECT! Thanks caf!
Two bits of info: I did not have sdc (my usb HD) turned on when I reinstalled; I did not put grub in the MBR. I remember swerdna saying we should, but that was not the default and that advise was from suse 10.3 or before. Just realized fdisk -l didn’t show that I converted to ext4.
Used drag & drop to get my docs back from sdc. Did not bring anything else over. I have a few things left to do: get the Contrib repo for chromium; get the codecs installed; change the hostname; get rid of that horrible green desktop (what were they thinking? This forum has a nice green).
Windows didn’t like something when I booted it. I ignored the requested disk check and it booted fine. Guess it was the resizing that was done twice since the last windows boot.
Conclusion: 
Sounds like a success, well done and a pat on the back.