Lonn wrote:
Sergey,
You told us you have two months of work on a report that is at risk on that failed system. That is significant and I would hate to see it lost.
I guess you probably couldn't concentrate at 3:30 AM so you had to turn in. Maybe your head is in better condition now. As I've said before -- I don't have SuSE and my thinking is based on 'other' -ix and -ux so you must try to correlate my thoughts with the reality of your SuSE installation.
Please attend to this suggestion if you can:
Tell us about your disk! What is the size of it? What did you use to create the partitions? What are the partitions, name, size, file system, what was on them before the crash.
Which WINDOWS OS, or other OS, are you using and which files system for WINDOWS? NTFS or FAT32?
Why can't you fix your GRUB? Can you show us the configuration of GRUB.
If you continue copying and playing with 'install' without understanding what you are doing you can kiss your research good-bye. Unfortunately, you may already have done that. Is/Was your research in a partition by itself?
IMHO your best bet is to make room for an install, and do that without getting into the crashed file system. Depending upon your disk size, and with the proper tools, you may shrink the WINDOWS partition to make room or maybe you didn't declare your partitions to use all of the disk. I think you need about 5 GB for an install, and less for a minimum install.
Without information about what you had before the crash, I am unable to see any alternatives.
Lonn Lonn, Fortunately my friend(who also a person who does that article with me) didn't delete all that material from his PC as he intended to do. I was really happy to hear from him that. That is really valuable material which was the result of our really hard work during the past two months. So the urgent task of rescuing my material passed. But the problem with changing installation source still in. Whenever I change my Installation Source, SuSE fails to start.
Here what I found from 'cfdisk': Name: Flags: Part Type: FS Type: [Label] Size (MB): hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 (LBA) 9434.40 hda5 Logical W95 FAT32 19518.59 hda6 Logical Linux ReiserFS 10018.40 hda7 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1044.62 I made this partitions with Partition Magic from windows XP. Two of my windows disks is on FAT32, and my Linux is on Ext2(as shows from PM) and I also have Linux Swap. I looked in a Partition Magic and it shows that all my Linux Ex2 partition is full(for my windows C: and D: partitions it shows the correct Unused space, but for Linux there is a mark "Unused: 0 Mb"), but when I look for it in Linux it shows that 6.7 Gb is free. Is the problem in it? Maybe I should try to Copy SuSE Distrib to an another partition? Now the situation is: Now my SuSE works fine (also as GRUB does) after reinstalling it yesterday four times, but now I am afraid to copy that DVD to my Hard disk and change the Installation source. Thanks for all, now am feeling embarrassed with so much inconvenience I brought. SM