Just got the Suse 8 Personal box, read through the doc and started it up. I wanted to shrink my Windows (ME) partition, but the install says my one and only partition is "unknown" and wants to format the whole thing. I don't get any other options for this question. Frankly this is a little too early in the install process to be running into problems as far as I'm concerned. (I assumed I would have problems with it recognizing that CD/RW and CD-Rom were the same thing, or something with the sound, etc.) Any suggestions? Fred Schiff (fschiff@mindspring.com)
Fred, A couple. Buy Partition Magic which works under Windows to resize your WinMe partition. From what I've read on the box it also works with Linux. The comfort factor of working with a Windows product is there. 2nd. Buy a new hard disk and install Suse on it. I'm very, very conservative so I create a boot floppy disk and boot Suse off of it. It doesn't take that much longer I think. The safety net is I don't mess with my MBR. If I lost my WinME dual boot with Win2000, I'd croak. Hope this helps. Eric On Monday 17 June 2002 00:58, Fred Schiff wrote:
Just got the Suse 8 Personal box, read through the doc and started it up. I wanted to shrink my Windows (ME) partition, but the install says my one and only partition is "unknown" and wants to format the whole thing. I don't get any other options for this question.
Frankly this is a little too early in the install process to be running into problems as far as I'm concerned. (I assumed I would have problems with it recognizing that CD/RW and CD-Rom were the same thing, or something with the sound, etc.) Any suggestions?
Fred Schiff (fschiff@mindspring.com)
At 02:45 PM 6/17/2002, you wrote:
Fred,
A couple. Buy Partition Magic which works under Windows to resize your WinMe partition. From what I've read on the box it also works with Linux. The comfort factor of working with a Windows product is there.
Partition Magic (borrowed from a friend of mine) just didn't work. I'm on Windows ME, and it wanted to go to DOS mode to do certain things, and it kept giving an error when it tried to do anything. By fiddling with the "Expert" options I managed to make the installer think the disk was a FAT32 partition. I more or less guessed at the size of the Linux partitions. From there I managed to shrink the Windows partition by 10 gig. This was a somewhat terrifying situation since the disk had an error at the end of shrinking the partition, and when I rebooted, I had *nothing*. No Windows no nothing. Very bad. Rebooting with the Suse disk 1, resumed the Linux installation without much problems. It gave suggestions for a swap and linux partitions, (but no boot partition for some reason. Is that ok?). I guessed at the options for the various Linux partitions and I seem to have guessed correctly since I now have a swap and linux(Reiser FS) partitions. I do not seem to have a boot partition for some reason. LILO gives me different boot options, but I can't figure out how to choose one over the other. I'll have to check the doc for LILO obviously. Using the information in the O'Reilly book, "Running Linux", I made the machine boot into Windows as a default. On to post-installation issues! Latest problem is that in KDE I don't have a mouse pointer, so its hard to choose anything or get rid of the clutter. How do I configure that, in console mode? Ciao Fred Schiff (fschiff@mindspring.com)
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