On Wednesday 04 July 2007 06:09, Giorgos wrote:
Hi!!! :-)
I hope not to disturb you with beginner's questions, but I'm just making my first steps on Linux. Sorry for my poor English too! :-)
Not to worry. We were all beginners once. Many of us still are...
I downloaded the openSUSE installation DVD, as well the 2 addittional CDs. I burn them and I made room at my disk with GParted. Now I have ~40GB unallocated space.
Installation run properly, until the disk partitioning. I pointed the installer at the unallocated space, but I received this message:
"The current selection is invalid. Too few partitions are marked for removal or the disk is too small. To install Linux, select more partitions to remove or select a larger disk." "OK"
What now? I read the minimum requirements and they're reporting 2.2GB for desktop installation. Did I missconfigured something? Am I missing something? Any ideas - suggestions?
To elaborate on Kai's reply, the default for simple installation is a root partition, a home-directory partition and a swap partition. First of all, you don't say what sort of partition structure you have. You say you made 40 GB available as unused space, but that doesn't tell us everything we need to know. How many partitions are defined already? Is there an extended partition table? If you don't have an extended partition table, then you get only four primary partitions. If you have an extended partition table, then you have, for practical purposes, an unlimited number of partitions. Lastly, if you want to use an extended partition table, you must reserve one of the primary partitions to hold that extended partition table. If you're installing just to experiment and don't forsee using the system you set up over the long term, you can force it to put both the root file system and the home directories in the same partition and forgo any swap in a separate partition. But even this is only an option if you have one partition slot available (whether primary or extended). In any event, if you do not have three available partitions and want to try something non-standard (well, non-default, anyway), you will have perform manual partitioning, eliminating the swap and home-directory partitions. And bottom-line, can't get around it, if you have all four primary partitions in use and don't have an extended partition table, you're out of luck without some major reorganization of your Windows installation. In this case, you might want to try the so-called "Live" disc (directly bootable, runnable CD or DVD).
THANKS!!! Giorgos. :-)
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