openSUSE 12.3 on Asus K55vj...installation problem

i have shrinked the volume of my 1TB hdd to approximately half…when trying to install opensuse…YasT cant detect my unallocated space…
thankyou for any help…Godbless

Is this a mbr formatted disk or a GPT formatted one???

Note if MBR you can only have a max of 4 primary partitions. You would need to remove one to allow an install

i only have 2 partitions…sir…one is unallocated space for the installation of opensuse

If it is a partition it is not unallocated.

Unallocated means no partitions in that space.

Maybe you can scoot down I can’t see over your shoulder. :slight_smile:

Joking but really you need to say what you have we do not read minds.

So is all the space taken up with partitions??

If so remove the second one and just let it be free space and the installer should then work. openSUSE defaults to use 3 partitions swap,root,home. You need the first 2 but it is recommended you also have a separate home partition.

If one is not able to navigate the openSUSE installer’s partitioner, then the alternative is to boot to a liveCD that specializes in partitioning, set up the partitioning structure that one wishes before installing openSUSE, then reboot to the openSUSE installation DVD.

A couple of good liveCDs that specialize in partitioning are:

Hi All. I have been endeavoring to upgrade to OpenSuSE 12.3.
PC: OS = 12.2 x86_64 | AMD phenom II [Black Edition 6 core]@2.8GHz/3.30GHz Turbo Core C/w 8.0MB Total Cache AM3 | Ram = 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | Video = ATI Sapphire Radeon 5670 with 1GB 5 Ram
Shark Desktop HDDs 2 x 2Tb Western Digital Sata in Raid 1 (MD0) and 2 x 320Gb Samsung Sata in Raid 1 (MD1). Connections are 6 GHz Sata Raid on the GigaByte GA-900FXA-UD3 Motherboard

My Question is this. I downloaded and double checked the OpenSuse 12.3 from OpenSuse.org website & ISO burnt to DVD and also to 8Gb Thumb drive. I run the 12.3 upgrade which is where difficulties arose. The partitions on my hard drives were corrupted somehow and screwed up the OS 12.2 which was near perfect. As all the files were now unrecoverable, I am glad that I had double backed up the files to my external 2TB Samsung Story caddy drive. I then proceeded to try to recover but could not get to a start point as it kept saying that I had a corrupted FSCK. E2fsck could not be used to fix the issue so I opted to do a clean install using 12.3. The install would not prepare the HDDs but kept coming up with the error.
[Failure occurred during the following action:
mounting /dev/mapper/pdc_ehbxxxxxx -part1 to (each partition)
System error code was: -3030
Continue despite the error? ]
The bootloader was never installed and all the files had been put (Parts) on the /dev/sda 1 to 6 (Parts) on /dev/sdb2 3 & 5 and (Parts on /dev/sdc2 & 3 and /dev/sdd1 & 2. No sense could be made jumble. I then run a Live disc to check and then had to resort to GParted to reset the partitions and format them as some had been changed from EXT4 to EXT2 which does not support embedding. With everything freshly reformatted and Raid 1 checked as good, I opted to try for another fresh install of 12.3. Same issue again. Can anyone tell me if the Partitioner in 12.3 has been changed from 12.2 and previous versions? I have now resorted back to OpenSuSE12.2 which just flew into the machine after I had GParted the partitions for the umpteenth time.

I think there is a problem with the installer and RAID disk arrays. I guess the only way to make it work is to upgrade via zypper.

My understanding is that once installed and running the Arrays are seen and used correctly.

Thanks for the info but it did not work. I went back to the BIOS and reset everything and saved. I still have no joy installing 12.3 on this machine so I had to opt to return to 12,2 which served me well. It appears to be something in Parted that is different in 12.3 compared to 12.2 because it is only the new version that will not find the pdc_mirrored partitions and will not format them and it is in the installation that preparing the drives that I get this dialogue boxes.

||X|| Failure occurred during the following action:
Formatting device mapper volume
/dev/mapper/pdc_ehbifjejh_part 1
“System error code: -3030”
Continue despite the error?
Same on the other drive partitions (2, 3, 5 ETC)
The partitions are Primary for the /boot, /, and /home is on an Extended 1.79GB in the 2TB mirrored RAID 1 drives and there is 2 Primary partitions RAID 1 on the 320GB Drives as 48GB Swap and 279GB as /data partition which works well for 12.2 but 12.3 is just a ‘No No’, and I do not know why.

What has changed between the partitioner in OpenSuSE 12.2 and 12.3?
12.2 has no such issues and ‘Just works’ beautifully.

Actually, and I found this out the hard-way ;-),
you don’t need a specialized CD. OpenSuse 12.3 LiveCd and RescueCD

already include GParted in them. just boot into Live CD or RescueCD
and you can use GParted and Yast to do all you need.

I recently had to undergo a new OS12.3 install on Raid1 system disk (my choosing)
and had to do special disk prepare for install to work correctly.
apparently it is a known bug in OS12.3 and 13.x that you can not properly install system on Raided system disk from with in Install manager if you try to do the Raid at the time of installation.

Sorry a little correction is needed.

the issue is not that you cant create the RAID during installation
but that Yast Partition manager used during the installation does not properly configure the boot sectors on the disks and raid is not properly setup thus making it unusable.
the absolute MUST for this to work is
#1 you need to have the disks prepped to have a good and valid MBR section
if you use the MBR setup.
and/or proper grab_boot BIOS partition if you use GPT.

those things are not done , or at least not done correctly by the installer and create problems for whole setup. or when you try to boot from the Raided disk later.
so before doing the full install you need to boot into LiveCD or RescueCD

use GParted to setup MBR or BIOS boot partition