when i run the dvd of opensuse 11.0
under the heading Preparation->System Analysis->search for linux paritions
i get the following messeage
the partitioning on disk /dev/sda is not readable by the partitioning tool which is used to change the partition table
you can use the partitions on disk disk /dev/sda as they are.you can format them and assign mount points to them but you cannot add, edit, resize or remove partitions from that disk with this tool.
If you have winXP on that partition, ensure you have defragged immediately before your installation attempt. That is VERY important.
If this is not a defrag problem, then one way to work around this is to create the partitions that you want in advance, using a liveCD tool such as gparted or parted magic:
gparted: GParted – Welcome
parted magic: http://partedmagic.com/
Download the iso file from those sites, burn the CD, and boot to the CD after burning is successfully complete. Use those liveCD tools to carve up your hard drive as appropriate in advance of your openSUSE install.
For openSUSE ensure you create
(1) a swap partition of around 1GByte (roughly equal to the amount of RAM you have, up to a max of around 1GByte), …
(2) a partition to house " / " (root) roughly around 15GBytes (maybe more, maybe less, dependent on your available hard drive space and dependent on your Linux desktop and appliction practises), and
(3) a partition to house " /home" with the remainder of the area assigned to Linux (I have over 300GBytes in my /home ).
Then when you run the 11.0 DVD installer, ensure you point the installer to those partitions for swap, / , and /home
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:46:04 GMT
acedip <acedip@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> when i run the dvd of opensuse 11.0
> under the heading Preparation->System Analysis->search for linux
> paritions
> i get the following messeage
>
>
> Code:
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> the partitioning on disk /dev/sda is not readable by the partitioning
> tool which is used to change the partition table you can use the partitions
> on disk disk /dev/sda as they are.you can format them and assign mount
> points to them but you cannot add, edit, resize or remove partitions from
> that disk with this tool. --------------------
>
>
Which other operating system is on that drive?
What operating system created those partitions?
Is the data important? Could we wipe it clean and start over?
If you press CTRL-ALT-F2 at that point, you’ll get a text screen with “/ #”
up at the top.
Type:
fdisk -l
And copy down what you see. Really only need certain parts of the output, no
point having you copy everything… I’ll give an example:
=====Example
-neptune- guest:~> fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009691c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 4870 37013760 83 Linux
=====Example
Do you see the columns marked ‘Id’ and ‘System’ ? Those are the important
ones. Well, how about “Device”, “Id”, and “System”. The rest are just
numbers, so they’re not that important at the moment.
/dev/sda1, 82, Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2, 83, Linux
Something like that would be great.
So copy down columns 1, 6 and 7. (Device, Id, System) and post it here.
Should be able to help you from that point.
Loni
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