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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Miata wrote:

>  If you need more than 16 paritions on your SATA drive, kpartx might
>  work
>
> or something similar, so an archive subject search can turn it up.

Which is exactly what I did in my third posting after having confirmed
that kpartx does indeed work. 

> The million dollar question, is can the SUSE YaST installer use a >15
> kpartx/dm partition on SATA as a / target? 

The other important question is whether the openSUSE install system
comes with kpartx? 

> If it can, there should be no need to avoid upgrading older systems to
> newer ones that only have SATA, which is what those of us using many
> partitions have been needing to do. #2, if #1 is yes, is can the YaST
> installer do it all by itself?

It might be a good suggestion for 11.0.



/Per Jessen, Zürich

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