Anel Hidic wrote:

Hello,

First i want to say that there are few SuSE fans in Bosnia and Hercegovina too :) . Me and my friend as far as i know :)

Hi Anel! I have a friend in nearby Romania who is running SuSE also!

The reason that i write is that i have a few problems and questions ...

1) I tried to install SuSE 6.3 with yast2 .... I had the partitions already created (SuSE 6.0 and Red Hat 6.0 were installed before SuSE 6.3) so i tried to install on that partitions (1.5 GB for Linux and 50 MB for swap) so i checked option that yast2

A general rule is to make the swap space about twice the size of your RAM.

installs on that partitions ..It didnt work with message "Not enough space for minimum instalation" ...then i destroyed that partitions and tried with 1,5 GB free space on HD ...and i get same message again.. Funny thing is that i installed SuSE with YasT1 with no problems at all . And in the book you can read that minimum installation is about 200 MB :) Strange....

There are several installation templates and you may have selected the install "everything" one. If I remember right that can require over 2GB. You may have to go through and deselect some of your packages, or select the minimal install and after it is complete then rerun YaST and add the one you want, watching your free disk space as you select each one.

So, can someone tell me is it my mistake or just bug in yast2 ? Hard disk is 6,4 GB Western Digital ...

I am using a 6.4GB WD which I have divided into three 2GB partions. It runs great!

2) Is it Loadlin the only way to boot if Linux kernel is behind 1024 cilinders ?

I don't know about Loadlin but if you use LILO to dual-boot then LILO and all of the /boot directory have to be beneath the 1024th cylinder.

3) and the most important how can i copy original SuSE boot disk (to make security copy) if i have DOS formatted diskette ... Should i format,Low-level format or make file system ???

Section 4.6 of the SuSE manual describes how to do this. You can pull an electronic version of the manual off of the CD-ROM if you don't have a paper copy. Of course you will need to create a new boot floppy every time you recompile the kernel or if you change the components of LILO. There are three steps to create a boot floppy that doesn't use LILO: 1) dd if=Your_Kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k 2) rdev /dev/fd0 Your_boot_partion 3) rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 Page 43 describes how to setup Loadlin and tells why you might not want to. Good luck! JLK

Thanks,

Anel Hidic... Bosnia & hercegovina

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Hi, On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Anel Hidic wrote:

First i want to say that there are few SuSE fans in Bosnia and Hercegovina too :) . Me and my friend as far as i know :)

Great! Welcome aboard.

1) I tried to install SuSE 6.3 with yast2 .... I had the partitions already created (SuSE 6.0 and Red Hat 6.0 were installed before SuSE 6.3) so i tried to install on that partitions (1.5 GB for Linux and 50 MB for swap) so i checked option that yast2 installs on that partitions ..It didnt work with message "Not enough space for minimum instalation" ...then i destroyed that partitions and tried with 1,5 GB free space on HD ...and i get same message again....

The error message is very misleading. Of course you do have enough space, but the current partitioning "intelligence" in YaST2 cannot handle specific partition layouts automatically. This happens when you get that error message. The upcoming version of YaST2 will be much better in that respective.

Funny thing is that i installed SuSE with YasT1 with no problems at all . And in the book you can read that minimum installation is about 200 MB :) Strange....

It's just a missing feature with a wrong error message. Will be fixed :)

2) Is it Loadlin the only way to boot if Linux kernel is behind 1024 cilinders ?

No, you can also dump the kernel image itself on a boot disk an boot it from there.

3) and the most important how can i copy original SuSE boot disk (to make security copy) if i have DOS formatted diskette ... Should i format,Low-level format or make file system ???

None of the above. The boot disk image is on the first CD, below the directory "disks". You can use "dd" or "rawrite" to put these images on a floppy. See the manual for info about this. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/