On Saturday 19 March 2005 1:05 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I just attempted to install SuSE 9.1 on my new Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. When I got to the point of trying to resize the Windows partition (NTFS), I was prevented from doing so because it was mounted. So I removed the mount point and tried again. Did you umount it first?
I couldn't figure out how to do that since there was no obvious way to get to a command line or to use the Yast facilities for it. The best I could do was to remove the mount point.
I resized 2 NTFS Windows XP home partitions on 2 e-Machines notebooks with 9.1, after defragging them in Windows.
The odd thing here is that several people reported in an earlier thread on this subject that they succeeded in resizing the NTFS partition. So I'm wondering why I got a different result than they did.
Why would the Windows partitions be mounted on an install? How did you install? Did you boot from the DVD?
Yast mounted them, for reasons best known to Yast. I did an ordinary install, choosing the defaults except for the partitioning, and I did boot from the DVD. Very puzzling. Paul