Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[Robert Lewis <rll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I purchased a new HP dv5237cl with a sata 120-GB harddrive.

Installation offered the following defaults.
Create extended partion      /dev/sda4     51.7 GB
Create swap                  /dev/sda5      2   GB
Create root                  /dev/sda6     19.5 GB
Create home                  /dev/sda7     30.2 GB

When installing SUSE 10.1 I got the following error message.

Failure occurred during following action:
Shrinking partition /dev/sda1 to 45.1 GB
System errpr code was -3027

A second attempt gave me the same result.
The current layout as supplied by HP is:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       12650   101611093+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           12652       14462    14546857+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3           14463       14593     1052257+  d7  Unknown


104GB NTFS
HP_RECOVERY
1.1GB NTFS

I suspect by reloading XP and dumping the HP_RECOVERY partition
and/or the FAT32 partition which I believe is used for watching DVD's
without actually booting the native XP that I might succeed.  It would
be a bit of pain to do this but I thought I would ask if anyone has had
experience with this issue?

Cheers,
Bob