Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[mjt <mjtobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:39:10 -0500,  Maura Edelweiss Monville <memonvil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mjt wrote:
> > ... use 'expert mode' to configure the partitions

> We got there. The problem is that no label ia attached to the
> partitions.
> For instance, at home I have a dual-bott DELL computer myself (Windows
> 2K and SuSE 8.2)
> If as  root I type the command:
> mauede@linux:~> su -
> Password:
> linux:~ # fdisk /dev/hda


.... you only need to execute as: "fdisk -l /dev/hda",
which outputs the drive data WITHOUT having to go into 
fdisk itself.

[snipped]
> What I mean it that by using "dfisk" I can see which partition is which
> while SuSE 9.0
> installer doed sot tell us what kind of partition we are manipulating.

... okay, i tried this on a laptop i have with win2k.
guess what? the suse partitioner shows the partition:
http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/suse-part.jpg

see /dev/hda1 and how it's labeled?

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