https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=331804 Summary: a suspended windows partition makes installation fail _after_ formatting disks. Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: 32bit OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: wstephenson@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Background: I installed 10.3 on a box with an existing dual boot setup, and did a New Installation over the existing linux install, keeping its partitions. The windows partition was not resized or touched in any way. After having formatted /boot and /, the installation aborted because it was unable to mount the windows partition (mount point set to /windows/c as default), because the windows was suspended to disk. Because /boot was already gone, I had no bootloader with which to boot windows and shut it down normally. I had to repeat the installation and not assign windows a mount point to be able to proceed. If linux' NTFS driver can't mount a suspended windows partition, and doing this is critical to installation, the partition should be test-mounted before beginning the installation process and making any destructive changes, so the user can back out of the install and sort out the windows. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.