Hi,
I’m trying to install opensuse 11.1 on my pc.
Everytime I click the install button, it goes to 2% and then it stops.
Always the same message: partitionstype of /dev/sda7 on 82
Systemfoldcode: -1012
What do I do wrong?
Is there someone who can help me?
Thanks in advance.
depends, what is the disk layout ? what partition setup have you made ? what partitioning tool did you use ? post the output of
fdisk -l
then someone may be able to help
Andy
Knor79 wrote:
> What do I do wrong?
well, it is difficult to know what you did wrong from what you told us…
we kinda need to know a few more things, like:
are there other operating systems on this machine
is there any data (photos, documents, music, etc etc) on any hard
drive that you do not want to loose?
do you have good back up, safe and not on the machine you want to
install to?
does the machin have multiple hard drives internal? external? how
connected?
are you installing from a DVD or Live CD?
did it come from http://software.opensuse.org/, or other? where?
did you follow ALL of the steps given in http://tinyurl.com/6jwtg9
before you began the install
what is your level of experience with openSUSE? Linux? Other (name it)?
When you say “Everytime I click the install button” do you mean
like the one in http://tinyurl.com/lbf3bt ? If so, tell us what you
did on the preceeding screen (scroll up to see “Installation
Settings”) section titled “Partitioning”? How did you set up the
partitioning? Did you use http://tinyurl.com/6mu7rm, or some other?
That is did you accept the install scripts default settings? Or, did
you select expert and set your own? Do you understand partitioning and
had mapped out exactly what you wanted to do? If you have multiple
operating systems did you use a guide like this one:
http://tinyurl.com/5eqy8k ?
can you do a fdisk -l and copy/paste the results back to this forum?
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Thanks foor the answers.
I will try the instructions and let you know.
To natural_pilot:
I’m running XP professional on my pc.
I want to change it to opensuse 11.1 now and I don’t want to use XP anymore. But I don’t have any experience with Linux.
The data I want to keep, I’ve putted it on an external harddisk that is not connected to my pc right now.
My pc has 2 internal harddisks.
I’m trying to install opensuse from a dvd i’ve made with nero.
The .iso file is downloaded from Software.openSUSE.org
To answer to step 9: I’m mean indeed like the one in Installation/11.1 DVD Install - openSUSE
I didn’t set up the partitioning, I accepted the install scripts default settings because i don’t know anything about it. And i thought it wasn’t necessary if i didn’t want xp anymore.
Can you post the output of this command as also mentioned above:
fdisk -l
Where do i have to put in that code?
If i type in the command in dos
There appears: fdisk isn’t recognized as a internal or external command, programme or batchfile.
DOS fdisk probably cannot correctly read the disk.
Boot the DVD and on the menu choose “Rescue System”. That will boot you to a command line. Log in as root. Then do:
fdisk -l
Copy down the output and post that back here.
could have been a bad burn
fdisk: unvalid option – ‘1’
Usage: fdisk -b SSz] -u] DESK Change partition table
fdisk -1 -b SSZ] -u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition
size(s) in stocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda and Partitioning is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in section (instead of cilinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
It’s not a 1 it’s an l (L)
Disk /dev/sda : 300.0GB, 300069052416 bytes
225 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier : 0x1c1d1c1c
Divice boot----Start----End----Blocks----ID----System
/dev/sda1 *-----1-------3649–29305048±-7-----HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundry.
/dev/sda2-----3649-----29404–206877037–7-----HPTS/NTFS
/dev/sda3----29404-----38481–56851515±-f-----W95Extd(LBA)
/dev/sda5----29404-----29575–1371038----83----Linux
/dev/sda6----29757-----29744–1365493±–83----Linux
/dev/sda7----29745-----29913–1357461----83----Linux
Need to revisit several details . . .
You indicate the machine has 2 internal hard drives. Why does fdisk only see one?
You indicated you don’t want to use XP anymore. Do you want to leave XP still installed on the machine? It is there, in the first partition. The second partition is also a Windows partition. Do you want to keep this?
I’m a bit confused by your first post, indicating you get to 2% and the installation stops. However, the openSUSE partitioning was done - that is what sda5-6-7 are (logical partitions inside an extended primary, sda4). sda7 (which is probably for /home) did not use all the remaining space within the sda4 container; do you know why?
Did you check the md5sum of the iso, and check that the burn the successful? You can do a media check from the DVD menu.
That’s right. I have a c-drive and a d-drive internal.
The d-drive is the one of 300 GB
The c-drive is one of 30Gb i think, and that’s where Xp is installed i thought.
I don’t know why it can’t see the second drive.
I bought this pc with a legal version of xp, but they didn’t gave me a installation cd. Plus the reason i don’t like xp, so i want a full change to opensuse 11.1 without xp on my pc. Or do you think there is a reason to keep it?
All the important data i want to keep, i’ve made a back up to an external hard drive.
It always instals to 2% and than it stops. Then it always goes back to the partitions screen and it says that there is no link to the partitions and there is something about ‘Swap’ to.
But i don’t know it exactly, so i will do a new post this evening when i’m at home.
Why sda7 did not use all the remaining space within the sda4 container, i don’t know.
I didn’t do a md5sum, because i didn’t knew in what kind of software i had to do it.
But i did a media check, and it says that it is all allright.
Unless you play games Knor I would think putting XP in a virtual machine (Virtual Box) is going to be all you need. I see that you don’t have an install disk for XP but torrent is your friend. Just get the same version and you can use your original key. I believe the virtual is stilling going to pull the same MAC address from the computer.
As to your problem, I have seen errors like that a while back when I had too many partitions on one drive. That may have nothing to do with this, but like I said unless you play games, XP in a seamless virtual will be your next best friend.
Let openSuse use the entire disk, maybe go get the torrent before you start the install again.
I don’t use xp to play games. I use a console for that.
But i think i have to learn a lot about partitioning.
Because i don’t know how to put xp in a virtual box and put opensuse on the whole drive. I thought opensuse was going to do that automaticly.
Knor,
Sometimes Linux will create mount points to existing Windows installations. I have also seen it tell it to delete the Windows partition and use the entire drive. I guess it depends on the version you are installing.
If it is creating mount points you can select the button just under the recommendations to create your own partitions. The next screen will list the existing partitions with radio buttons next to them and there will be an option for “Use entire disk.” This is the one that you want to use. It will then give you the suggested partitions for the entire disk, deleting the windows partitions.
As for partitions just be sure to create a
/boot
/
/swap (optional)
/home
All can be ext3 except for swap of course.
VirtualBox is really easy to set up. I believe it is on the openSuse DVD but it is not the latest version. Once that is install creating virtuals is pretty much a step-by-step process and explained well by VirtualBox.
There probably is no “original key”; it appears the machine is oem with XP already installed. Such a copy of Windows, and any associated key, are not portable. Downloaded copies of XP can be installed, but this gets tricky. The downloadable keys created after initial release of XP were blacklisted in SP1, and so cannot be used. There were subsequent volume license keys leaked to the web which overcomes this. However, this also requires using a program which circumvents WGA phoning home for validation. If this technique is used, SP2 and SP3 can be subsequently installed, but only if downloaded as separate executables (that is, not if using Windows Update, as the volume license keys are now also blacklisted). If a machine has had a retail or corporate version of XP independently installed and WGA used to validate it, a hardware signature is created (not the MAC address) using a combination of components in the machine; this unique identification prevents installation on another machine unless pre-approved by Microsoft, including in a virtual machine. Security updates can be installed via Windows Update in the above scenarios, but not any other updates.
Being able to run Windows games in a virtual machine depends on the game, the amount of RAM that can be allocated to the guest OS, and to some extent the type of virtual machine and the cpu. Modern commercial graphics intensive games will be problematic without sufficient resources available to the virtual machine and its ability to utility those resources.
That still leaves the question of how many physical disks you have. In Windows, the term “drive” is very often used interchangeably with the term “volume” (which is a partition), but this is incorrect. There is no “C drive”, “D drive”, etc. - they are volumes. Your fdisk report shows the first partition to be 30GB out of a total 300GB. There is a second Windows partition, approx 210GB. Perhaps you are thinking C: and D: indicate two drives when they are actually partitions on the same physical disk?
Finally, the partitioning you have will not work. In addition to the two Windows partitions, there is an extended primary which is 58GB inside of which are three “logical” partitions. However, these are very small, not quite 1.5GB each. This is not enough space for installation, and that may be the problem which is stopping the installer.
If the above issues re XP are not a concern for you, my suggestion is to instruct the openSUSE installer to wipe the whole disk and create its own partitioning. If you wish to leave the XP partitions, in the installer use Expert Partitioning to delete the extended primary (and with it, the logicals inside) and then use that space for a new extended primary.
Oh yeah! The old OEM key does pose a problem. Didn’t think about that.