installer can't see partition table
Greetings, I recently downloaded and burned CD's for OpenSuSE 10.1 in the hopes of installing it on my computer at home. Currently, it runs SuSE 8.2 on an ext3 file system. The installer starts up as it should and seems to have no problems until after it asks me what I wish to do. I have answered all variants of the following: update an existing installation vs. install new and with or without packages on aditional media (which I presume to mean the add-on CD from the OpenSuSE site). I have also tried initially selecting "local APIC disabled". I have, howver, NOT yet tried installing with "APCI disabled" since my mothrboard supports it. (And won't get to it for a few hours, so I might as well ask while I'm on the sidelines anyway...) In every case, when I select "show all psrtituions", I get a list of ONLY the primary partitions of my two hard drives, and in no case did it seem remotely aware of the file systems in use. On one occasion, I decided to see what would happen if I told the installer to continue anyway. This got me the following message, which no amount of googling shed any light on. "No installed system that can be upgraded with this product was found on the selected partition." Here is the partition table (from sdisk -l) for the system disk. The other disk, /dev/hdc, is data-only. Disk /dev/hda: 1027 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1 2- 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 2 894 893 7173022+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 895 927 33 265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 928 1026 99 795217+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 928+ 960 33- 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 961+ 993 33- 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 994+ 1026 33- 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda1 is mounted as /boot and /dev/hda1 as / . Is OpenSuSE purposely written so as not to recognize its purchased cousin? Is there a way to get the installer to at least "see" my partitions, as SuSE installers have on sveral past occasions? Am I missing something glaringly obvious? I would greatly appraciate any assistance with this, even if only RTFM -- so long as you also "tell me where to go" in the literal sense! TIA, and Cheers! Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Sunday 28 May 2006 20:01, Steve Miller wrote:
Greetings,
I recently downloaded and burned CD's for OpenSuSE 10.1 in the hopes of installing it on my computer at home. Currently, it runs SuSE 8.2 on an ext3 file system.
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Disk /dev/hda: 1027 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
A few things you haven't mentioned. Do you know how muuch space is available for a new installation? Where would it go? Why do you have 4 swap areas? (just curious) Going from 8.1 to 10.1 with an update is probably not possible and not a good idea in any case. A new install is called for IMHO. How old is this computer and can it handle large HD's? How large is your HD? There may be no solution that the installer can find... not enough space to create new partitions, and hopefully it won't try to upgrade from 8.1 to 10.1 (really)
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1 2- 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 2 894 893 7173022+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 895 927 33 265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 928 1026 99 795217+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 928+ 960 33- 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 961+ 993 33- 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 994+ 1026 33- 265041 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda1 is mounted as /boot and /dev/hda1 as / .
Is OpenSuSE purposely written so as not to recognize its purchased cousin? Is there a way to get the installer to at least "see" my partitions, as SuSE installers have on sveral past occasions? Am I missing something glaringly obvious?
I would greatly appraciate any assistance with this, even if only RTFM -- so long as you also "tell me where to go" in the literal sense!
TIA, and Cheers!
Steve
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