<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>What kind of drive are you using IDE/EIDE/SCSI, which version of SuSE do you have, what kind of machine do you have?</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B>Robert Metelsky <<A href="mailto:reefkeep@connix.com">reefkeep@connix.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A href="mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com">suse-linux-e@suse.com</A> <<A href="mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com">suse-linux-e@suse.com</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Friday, September 04, 1998 9:54 AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [SuSE Linux] partition 5g hd help!!<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><BR>Thanks for the reply<BR><BR>> I use partition magic to setup all my partitions as unformatted type,<BR><BR>I dont have partition magic. Im wondering what is the *correct* partitioning<BR>method for a 5g hd<BR><BR>> <BR><BR>> then<BR>> change partition type in suse fdisk. If you are using that EZBios crap that<BR>> came with the Maxtor that can cause a problem too.....<BR><BR>Yes... that *was* a problem but its all removed now... my bios card easily takes<BR>care of the drive itselfthere is no trace of maxtors propriety software<BR><BR>If I remove all partitions using dos fdisk then boot suse<BR>choose partitioning i get... "an error ocurred during installion" <ok> machine<BR>hangs.. reboot<BR>choose system information... harddisk geometry 4092/16/63<BR>again....<BR>choose partitioning i get... "an error ocurred during installion" <ok> machine<BR>hangs.. reboot<BR>choose do not partition... no partitions available <continue>no filesystem none<BR>of your filesystems is mounted as root... <<no kidding>><BR><abort><BR>*what* am I doing wrong and *why* cant this reconise a hd and procede??<BR>thanks<BR>rob<BR><BR>-<BR>To get out of this list, please send email to <A href="mailto:majordomo@suse.com">majordomo@suse.com</A> with<BR>this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e</BLOCKQUOTE>