On 11/10/2011 10:24 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 07:08:59 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2011-11-11 04:02, Roger Luedecke wrote:
Well, it prevents me from being able to repartition properly. I was finally going to get rid of Windows on this netbook. Though I could probably make another swap partition in the right place and then delete the other and merge /home with the old swap and the empty space it leaves isolated... what a pain in the *$#!
I think that "swapon -s" should show you if there is some swap somewhere in use, and then you can disconnect it. If it refuses, there is not enough ram.
Could be, but I find that hard to believe. Either way, the other issue means I have to 'dd' again instead of just rebooting into the installer minus the live environment.
I've always observed that if you boot the installer from a usb stick, then the installer may write the bootloader, even if nothing else, to that usb stick, if you don't intervene. That will break that stick from booting the way it's supposed to. (it will boot the installed system and no longer function as an installer) So you have to just watch out for that in the partitioning and bootloader screens.
You may need to edit the device.map file in the advanced options, and/or you may only need to select the right drive in the main bootloader install screen.
But it will show you in a summary where it is going to put the bootloader, so you can keep going back to the bootloader screen until the summary looks like it will do what you want.
I never had any issue with swap. I usually don't make any in the partitioning screen and that's that. I've never used the new liveusb though, so of course that probably has new things it does different from the regular net iso. Yeah, I'm not even getting to the point of running the installer because of
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 07:59:16 PM Brian K. White wrote: the partitioning/swap issue. But clearly it alters the USB in some fashion after the first boot. For that matter, the first time I ran live I didn't so much as start the installer. But it still screwed up the sticks ability to boot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org