-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-08-24 at 14:41 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote (in opensuse@opensuse.org):
"Carlos E. R." <> writes:
The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 22:34 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
We now use libata for IDE drives which is a SCSI based library.
Is there any hope of increasing the 16 partition limit some time in the future?
No - but we added a workaround for this. If you have more than 16 partitions, just give it a try!
Alternatively, will the ata support remain for ever, with maintenance?
I guess for 10.4, we will remove it.
I have disks with 20 partitions. I suspect I'm not the only one using more than 16 partitions.
So, please test whether it our workaround makes you happy ;-)
So, I tried Beta 3. I downloaded the dvd, which took two whole days. I boot the dvd. It asks for my language (US), but not for the keyboard (ES), which is a nuisance. It searches the partitions, sees there are disks with more than 16 partitions, and pops a large warning, recommending to reboot the install with kernel option "hwprobe=-modules.pata". So I do. (Typing symbols like "=-" in a non US keyboard is a nuisance. When will grub support different keyboard layouts?) When I reach the point of installation (when it tries the network in order to add online repos), it pops a window requesting "insert opensuse 10.3 CD1", "continue/cancel". I'm using DVD! Why does it ask for the CD1? Anyway, continue doesn't work (it asks again for CD1), and cancel aborts the install. What now? Andreas: is that the workaround you wanted me to test? It doesn't work at all :-( More. If I type "mount" in one of the consoles, it yields nothing. Not even the root filesystem shows! Why? It seems to want to mount the dvd in /var/adm/mount. There is nothing there. I mount it manually, try "continue". It still doesn't see the DVD. So I ask here for procedure. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFG5A7ltTMYHG2NR9URAh7qAJ4z67owGyW+cBMMkokCw5EWwpi/mQCfdEBq 8c1o+4nZMVdVnq/Y8f0GSUE= =Ccth -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org