hi,this is my first time trying opensuse, and i had a quick question. When i popped in the dvd, all the steps were easy until the partitioning one. When i installed ubuntu, it had an option for “Use the largest continuous free space”; and i assumed the suse had something like that, so i used live cd partion editor to shrink space from one of my other partitions. i have 10g unallocated space that i have shrunk. When i get to the partition editor, suse dosnt recognize the unallocated space and show it, so i cant install in onto there, is there anything i can do?
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You could be a little more descriptive of what you have ie; hd’s and OS’s installed
list of partitions
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:26:05 GMT
tibco91749 <tibco91749@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> hi,this is my first time trying opensuse, and i had a quick question.
> When i popped in the dvd, all the steps were easy until the
> partitioning one. When i installed ubuntu, it had an option for “Use
> the largest continuous free space”; and i assumed the suse had
> something like that, so i used live cd partion editor to shrink space
> from one of my other partitions. i have 10g unallocated space that i
> have shrunk. When i get to the partition editor, suse dosnt recognize
> the unallocated space and show it, so i cant install in onto there, is
> there anything i can do?
>
>
Hi, and welcome to openSUSE!
Are you sure it didn’t see it? or maybe it just didn’t draw attention to
it…
The partition editor used doesn’t indicate ‘unallocated’ space… it only
shows the allocated partitions.
If you let it choose it’s own partition scheme, it should fill in the space
as desired.
You can always create the partitioning setup yourself, with a swap partition
at least as large as ram (so suspend/hibernate can work), a 20G root
partition and the rest for /home…
{Grin} except you’ve got about 10G to play with… so maybe make swap about
512Meg, and put the rest as / (root)… no point splitting it up when that’s
all you have to play with.
Hope this helps
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Ok off the top of my head, here is my partion list:
~100gb - vista
~10gb - unallocated free space
~29.2gb - extended (ubuntu)
(~28- ext3 ubuntu)
(~1.2 - swap)
~10gb - HP Recovery
those are approimate numbers, but they are in the correct order.
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:56:05 GMT
tibco91749 <tibco91749@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Ok off the top of my head, here is my partion list:
>
> ~100gb - vista
> ~10gb - unallocated free space
> ~29.2gb - extended (ubuntu)
> (~28- ext3 ubuntu)
> (~1.2 - swap)
> ~10gb - HP Recovery
>
> those are approimate numbers, but they are in the correct order.
>
>
As long as you properly shutdown opensuse and ubuntu, they could share the
swapspace… if you suspended one of them, then the other would corrupt the
saved state. maybe better not do that.
Let’s number them… pretend drive is ‘sda’…
sda1 ~100gb - vista
~10gb - unallocated free space
sda2 ~29.2gb - extended (ubuntu)
sda5 ~(~28- ext3 ubuntu)
sda6 ~(1.2 - swap)
sda7 ~10gb - HP Recovery
Hmmm… well, should work. You’d really just have to try it… although you
could delete the stuff you didn’t really need… start with partition 1
(sda1). {Grin}
Honest, easier to just try it than to explain it. Remember, the opensuse
installer doesn’t write ANYTHING to the drive until that LAST step. So you
can tinker with things all you wish… and nothing will happen until you
click that last ‘finish’ button.
Note: I said the INSTALLER won’t write to the drive until you’re done with
setup questions. All bets are off if you do things in another terminal, as
that’s immediate, and usually permanent. Keep your arms and legs inside the
Installer application at all times.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Ok, ill mess around, but i still want to know if i can use the unallocated space for opensuse.
YES - Should be poss.
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:36:03 GMT
tibco91749 <tibco91749@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, ill mess around, but i still want to know if i can use the
> unallocated space for opensuse.
>
>
Yes, it will work with opensuse.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com