Hey!
Since three days I try now to install OpenSuse 10.3 on my laptop. At the moment Windows is the main OS on it and I want to change that by-and-by.
Actually the installation dialogue is quite easy and it isn’t the first time that I install Linux on a pc but when it comes to the point that the installation begins and the Linux installers starts to resize the Windows partition I often get different problems. Once nothing happened for three hours, the next time I got an error message that my partition is inconsistent and another time first nothing has happened but then I got again an error message that my partition is buggy. I tried to fix that but I wasn’t successful. So now my question is: Are there any tools to fix my partition or are there any other possibilities to fix my problem except from formatting the entire hard drive? Please consider that I am not a Linux or computer pro 
. However I want to improve and Linux is my first step.
First, are you certain your openSUSE-10.3 CD/DVD is good? Where did you get it from?
Second, you could try a custom tool like Parted Magic or Gparted to check your partitioning. That would confirm the openSUSE assessment.
Hi. Before modifying a partition is always recommend to perform a scandisk. I think this is the cause of your problem
oldcpu wrote:
> First … Second
hey oldcpu,
i’ve recommended to several folks your article at
http://tinyurl.com/3vwrzl it is a really good article…
but, having just read bcrisciotti’s reply to this thread saying: “Before
modifying a partition is always recommend to perform a scandisk. I think
this is the cause of your problem” i agree with him…my GUESS ‘lennusz’
let the SUSE install routine TRY to resize a well fragmented (and
possibly problem sectored) hard drive…
and i want to suggest you revisit your very good advice on installing
v 11.0 and maybe turn it into a how-to (and/or somehow make it easier
for n00bs to avoid killing their Windows[tm] AND immediately disliking
Linux) and add a numbered section directed toward folks who are gonna
install to a dual boot with MS-anything and tell them (among other
things–those other things i do NOT know since i’ve never laid Linux
over a M$ populated drive)…:
-
defrag your windows partitions in windows before you start the CD/DVD
-
read up on partitioning in Linux before beginning the install
– see, for example: http://tinyurl.com/6mu7rm
– http://tinyurl.com/5eqy8k -
explain not (i think that is correct, but not sure) to select the
install routine’s default disk partitioning recommendation
– explain (or point to) what to do in the most often cases
— dual boot with <xp/etc http://tinyurl.com/5eqy8k>
— triple boot with xp/etc AND ubuntu/etc <???>
and all the other stuff they need to consider prior to trying an install…
–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
Thanks for the recommendations.
As a bit of a “knee jerk” reaction, after reading this thread (and your recommendation) I quickly put in a warning about defragging …
NEWBIES - Suse-11.0 Pre-installation – PLEASE READ - openSUSE Forums
I confess, I am a bit reticent about adding too much. I do not want to end up duplicating information that is already in the openSUSE web site, put in place by Novell/SuSE-GmbH and the openSUSE community. Instead what I would like to do is simply point to the exisiting pages.
I am getting a gradual more and more detail creep into that stickie, which was not my intent to start with. I do want to avoid duplication.
i agree there is no need for duplication…however, it seems to me that
a couple of dozen (or more) folks stumble into the fora daily having
read NOTHING about how to install it correctly…
i mean, it is just obvious from the way they frame their questions and
then the answers they give when we ask (for example) “how did the md5sum
go?”
if all of these things already exist: perhaps you (someone) only needs
to put them all in one html document, and make the install disk boot up,
open a browser and FORCE the prospective installer to READ prior to
proceeding…
that way, maybe we won’t have more than a couple a week coming here
crying about having lost all of mom’s very important recipes (or
whatever)…and then going back to windows for the next 30 years!! bad
mouthing Linux to all that will listen.
ps: i know that is NOT possible (to force them to read) but, it does
seem the install disks could be HARD WIRED to do a media check PRIOR to
offering to install…
just my too sense
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
hey!
i have defragmented my hard drive in windows and now i have linux installed =).
thanks for your help