On Thursday 27 June 2002 17:59, Verdi March wrote:
Hi,
Today (night actually), I tried to install SuSE 8 (ftp version) to Dell Opt Gx240 at my lab, but fail.
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My hardisk structure is: hda1: Primary partition, NTFS (Windows Xp), about 7 GB hda2: Empty primary partition, this will be the mount point "/". Size is about 3 GB. hda3: Extended partition. Size is about 8 GB. During installation, this is displayed as "Win95 Extended (LBA)" (or something similar).
You forgot something: hda4: Unused entry in the partition table in the MBR (!)
hda4: Empty logical partition, this will be "/home". Size is about 3 GB.
-> hda5
hda5: FAT32, this is where SuSE installation sources reside (D:\installer\suse8). Size is about 4 GB.
-> hda6
hda6: Linux swap partition. Size is 1 GB.
-> hda7 [snip] The entries in the partition table of the MBR are always numbered 1-4, even if they are unused. Example (hdb): 1 Extended partition (Win95 Extended) = hdb1, and 1 logical partition in that Extended partition = hdb5. Leen