Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

["M9." <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

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jdd schreef:
> Peter Czanik wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like:
> 
> I will add to this.
> 
> I don't remember if the yast install console (there is one available,
> don't remember the F-number) allow partitioning, but the rescue mode
> allows it.
> 
> however, with 10.2, when you _have_ made a swap partition, the automatic
> partitoner/installer is confused and don't allow to use it by default
> for the final install (it uses it for yast)
> 
> practically, what I did:
> 
> create a swap, mkswap, launch install... ok
> when come to partitioning (free disk), I was said that 3 partitions
> where needed:
> * my original swap one,
> * a new yast proposed swap partition,
> * the / partition.
> 
> I didn't too much look at the details (alas), go to expert mode, delete
> the new swap and / yast proposal, don't touch my swap one, and add all
> the rest as /
> 
> after that, yast complain it can't mount the /dev/hda1 partition on the
> "swap" mount point... may be my original swap part was reaffected by
> yast, but in a funny way :-).
> 
> I had only to go back to partitionner, assign and format my swap as
> swap, the rest as / and all goes well.
> 
> but, here, there are two potential problems:
> 
> * a pre-existing swap should be used as swap :-)) by default
> * why was a "swap" mount point ever proposed :-)
> 
> on such system, when a swap part is needed, creating it should be proposed

I would very well welcome this proposition on the short term.

Yesterday i wanted to update 10.0 > 10.2, on a Compaq Armada E500, with
192MB Ram. (Not possible caused by unsolvable deps.)

Yast suggested to use the available swap-partition, and continued.
However, the new install somehow screwed the partition label, and
install was terminated.

W2K, and the 10.0 install unusable...

Now i did re-install W2K, and am facing the same prob.
It is solvable, but for people not as familiar, this would be:

Not possible to install SuSE OS.

This is the last thing we would want, i guess?
> 
> jdd
> 
> 
> 

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Have a nice day,

M9.               Now, is the only time that exists.



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