Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 14 February 2010 14:09:40 Anton Aylward wrote:
> Since I have a folder full of LiveCDs and have never met this problem, I
> wonder if its simply lack of experience with the varieties of Linux and
> lack of experiences with problem diagnostics.  Quite possibly I've run
> into something LIKE this and not noticed it because I'm so use to
> dealing with Linux and oddities of hardware.

If you install openSUSE on a machine which already has a windows partition 
taking up the whole disk, the install wants to shrink that windows partition 
to make room for the new linux partitions(s), and to shrink a partition, it 
should be defragmented first, to avoid its taking a very long time, and to 
avoid risk of corrupting the windows partition.

Yes there is a way of running linux from a file on a windows partition, but 
you normally don't want to do that

And yes, if all you want to do is to run a live CD, then none of this is 
necessary.

Anders
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