On Sunday 17 February 2002 07:29 am, erik@urbakken.dk wrote:
Hi.
I have a harddisk on 40GB, where I first have installed win98se on the first 20GB.
On the reset I want to install SuSE linux 7.3.
During the install I'm told what linux suggest. It suggests the win98se partition to be resized, and this is not my intention to do this.
Would it be more automated if I choose to install linux before wini98se ?.
Hello Erik I think you were right to install w98 first, because if Linux were on the disk first, w98 would not be able to see it and could not install. That's what I've heard many times, though I did not try it myself this way.
If I want to modify how can that be done ?.
There is an option to do that in Yast2, you can manually give the size of every partition. Chose "Custom Partitioning " in yast2 - step 2 Just check there is no empty sector, or a twice used one. Anyway, nothing will be written or formatted on your HD before yast2 - step6 and you should have an error message if you wrote something wrong.
Here the table showing what Yast2 shows:
/dev/hda 37.2GB ST340810 0-4864 /dev/hda1 7.0GB FAT32 /windows/c 0-913 (can this be changed by hand ?) /dev/hda2 16.7GB Win95 Ext'd (LBA) 2678-4864 /dev/hda3 13.5GB F Linux (reiser) (Reiser FS) 1916-2677 /dev/hda4 15.7MB F Linux (ext2) (Ext2) /boot 914-915 /dev/hda5 54.9MB Linux native 2678-2684 /dev/hda6 16.2GB Linux native 2685-4799 /dev/hda7 509,8MB F Linux Swap swap 4800-4864
Hope one of you will help me.
I am happy if I can, Please someone correct me if I wrote something wrong as I am a bit of a newbie myself. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Ollion Proud Linux User - SuSE 7.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------