On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 19 September 2010 16:33:25 Lucky Leavell wrote:
I see two issues, at least on my system:
1. /boot and /root are on separate partitions 2. root and all other partitions except /boot are LVM.
The LVM part is problem. It would be nice if you can resize LVM partition. I still did not find enough incentive to use LVM, so I can't help you with that more then Google.
The other option is to put in computer another disk and install small Linux installation with X and some old fashioned window manager that will be rescue and boot system. Disadvantage is that you will have to update both when kernel update is due.
Third is to backup /home and start from scratch. Create partitions before you start installation, for instance from Live CD, and then run installation.
I did manage to boot from the installation DVD and get rsync working. I then created anothe OSE11.3 VM and rsync'ed /home and /etc to the new VM. I kept the old one around to see if I can learn by trying to fix it. Unfortunately, time has not permitted. On the new VM, I opted for non-LVM partitions for all of the OS stuff and did away with the separate /boot partition altogether which seems to be the recommendation of more experienced SuSE folks (and even Red Hat too). I have a minimal OSE11.3 VM at work which I installed taking the defaults which created a separate 68MB /boot. I realize the separate /boot is probably required because I chose the LVM route for root (/) and the other OS partitions. I did not try to resize it at that time because it is really not used for much. I cannot even put it on the network to update it without violating our "security" policies but don't get me started on that one!
In any case it will be interesting to know what exactly what you did with current installation. I didn't have problems with installer, but I don't use separate boot, and LVM. If it did not allow you to make partition bigger then 68M then you should file a bug report.
When I recall that my first 2 hard disks were 80MB :)
My first hard drive was on a Tandy 1000 running DOS 3. I bought a third party controller and 20MB hard drive wondering how I would ever use that much space! My latest ESXi box has four 750GB drives in a RAID5 with hot spare giving about 1.4TB usable. How will I ever use that much space ... <G>! Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org