On Friday 07 September 2007 11:49:51 pm Bob S wrote:
A while back I purchased a 250 GB Sata drive, intending to install different os's and or versions of SuSE. I installed 10.2 on my shiny new drive but I stupidly partitioned 3 primaries, /, /swap, and /home, and used the fourth primary for the extended partition. Dumb move - Out of partitions with about 150GB of free space. (I run 10.0 on another small IDE drive)
The extended partition is just a container for logical partitions, kind of virtual hard disk within real hard disk. So nothing to move, just add new partitions. My favorite for partitioning is command line program 'cfdisk', or recently YaST Partitioner that makes possible to prepare disk from partitioning and resizing to formating. I use cca 10 GB for installation. For new installations I use old home directory, but create new users. That way changes in configuration of desktop (KDE, GNOME, other applications) doesn't interfere with older versions. The newest tool to experiment with new versions of openSUSE, Live CDs, other distros, is virtual machine. In openSUSE you have options to use QEMU, VirtualBox or Xen, but you can opt for VMware, Parallels etc. For details just ask Google, there is few articles on openSUSE about virtual machines too. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org