On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:05, john kereszturi wrote:
Sorry if this has been covered already, but I couldn't find an explanation or workaround for the following:
I have a machine that had a layout as follows:
hda1 - ~5 Gig hda2 - ~15 Gig hda5 - ~40 Gig
hda2 and hda5 were existing NTFS (windows) partitions. hda1 was a partition with factory-restore files. I went to install suse 9.1 into the hda1 partition, but it wouldn't let me claiming that it could only install into the "highest partition".....after which I promptly loaded another older linux distro which installed just fine into hda1...and has no problem dual-booting, either.
I'd love to stay with Suse 9.1, but didn't see a workaround for this (stupid) problem. Has anyone else run into this? Is there actually a good reason why I shouldn't be able to install into a lower (not highest) partition??
Here is my fstab. BTW 5 gig is less than I allow for / I recommend repartitioning after backup /dev/hda3 / ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda10 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda4 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda11 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hda8 /windows/g vfat uid=1000,gid=100,umask=002,exec,dev,suid,rw,auto 0 0 /dev/hda9 /windows/h vfat uid=1000,gid=100,umask=002,exec,dev,suid,rw,auto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,users,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,users,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/c vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/d vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/e vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda7 /windows/f vfat noauto,user 0 0 With that 60 gig I would make at least 20 gig for 9.1 and split the rest for winblows /boot make 64mb /swap 500mb / 6 gig /home the rest of the 20 make the two windows partitions each 20 gig. The easiest way is to make one primary for windows which seems to need one and make it small 5 gig hda1 5 gig windows hda2 extended to the rest of the drive. You have done this already as you have hda5 which is the first in the extended partition. BTW because of the funny way windows handled partitions your stuck with partition manager. Once started go to a movie. hda5 make boot hda6 make swap hda7 make / hda8 make /home hda9 will be one of the existing windows ntfs partitions hda10 will be the other existing windows partition. If you need to trade files between them then make a small win32 to which both can write./ there are programs for writing ntfs but they are third party. Save the money for the movie. Have fun Suse 9.1 is the easiest yet but you were giving it too little space. Then again if you really want to do it the easy way get another hd and two caddys and put *nix on the new drive. CWSIV