Well, I have only one HDD. A 200GB Samsung drive. I have it split into two partitions. 100GB for Windows and 100GB for media files.
I am trying to install OpenSusE but it keeps giving me an error, saying that I’m trying to shrink a too larg of a file. However, I don’t have a clue what I’m doing. The reason why I’m using OpenSuse is because a job im trying to get, the boss told me to use OpenSUSE as thats what they use.
Anyway, is there a way I can install the OS on a partition seperate to my Windows xp?
On 2008-08-19, Adam Stone <Adam_Stone@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Well, I have only one HDD. A 200GB Samsung drive. I have it split into
> two partitions. 100GB for Windows and 100GB for media files.
>
> I am trying to install OpenSusE but it keeps giving me an error, saying
> that I’m trying to shrink a too larg of a file.
Please post the exact message. Seems strange.
> Anyway, is there a way I can install the OS on a partition seperate to
> my Windows xp?
You’ll have to reduce one of the partitions, to make room for another.
Maybe best would be to copy all media to an external disk, and re-create
that partition with a size of 80? Then you’d have 20GB for openSUSE.
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but chip is warm too
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You’ll need to run ‘scandisk’ on each windows drive to make sure they’re
error free, and then defrag them fully to ‘pack’ the data down in the drive.
How full are your two drives? I imagine your media storage might be quite
full… try having opensuse shrink the windows partition instead.
As someone else mentioned, you can certainly use opensuse on 10-20GB of
space, since it can also access your windows and media partitions to pull
data from too if you need.
scandisk
defrag
both drives.
then retry the install, possibly trying the windows drive to shrink.