Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Hartmut Meyer <hartmut.meyer@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2003 05:51 schrieb Maura Edelweiss Monville:

> We've got a DELL PC running Windows XP . Now we want to reduce Windows
> partition as much as we can and install SuSE 9.0
> We started out SuSE installation and noticed taht we are granted the
> possibility to resize a partition but SuSE installer does not tell us
> what there is in that partition.

My guess is, that your pre-installed WinXP is using only one single partition 
that consumes the whole hard disk space.

You could reject the partitioning proposal made by YaST2 and enter the expert 
partitioning dialogue (within YaST2). Then you will see what partitions 
exist.

> Since this is SuSE 9.0 it is supposed to
> detect Windows partitions and provide the option to resize them.
> Unluckily it does not attach any label to the shown partitions so we are
> not sure how to proceed ...
>
> We would greatly appreciate some help at doing the following:
>
> 1. decrease Windows partition size
> 2. install SuSE 9.0
> 3. know the SuSE commands (if any)  that show  all  partitions from all
> computer hard disks.

On the command line: "fdisk -l". 

You could do so even during the installation: press <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F2> to get a 
text console and enter the "fdisk -l" command. Then change back with 
<Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F7> and continue with the installation if you want.


Greetings from Bremen
hartmut