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Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 4 DOS Partition ?
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:56:29 +0200
- Message-id: <hohcq3vrya.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Günther J. Niederwimmer" <gjn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I can't install Alpha 4 on a System with a small (500MB) DOS Partition
> on /dev/sda1 ? The new installer like to resize the Partition. When I go to
> manual partitioning I have only EVMS Drives, after reformat the DOS
> partition to a swap Partition I can install Alpha 4 and I found all my
> partition in YaST2 Partitioning ?
>
> Is this a known Problem ?
No need for a bugreport: There are quite some problems with EVMS - and
we're removing it for Alpha5 again, it causes more trouble during
development than it benefits the few openSUSE users that want it,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> Hello,
>
> I can't install Alpha 4 on a System with a small (500MB) DOS Partition
> on /dev/sda1 ? The new installer like to resize the Partition. When I go to
> manual partitioning I have only EVMS Drives, after reformat the DOS
> partition to a swap Partition I can install Alpha 4 and I found all my
> partition in YaST2 Partitioning ?
>
> Is this a known Problem ?
No need for a bugreport: There are quite some problems with EVMS - and
we're removing it for Alpha5 again, it causes more trouble during
development than it benefits the few openSUSE users that want it,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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