Dotty Pixel wrote:

I really badly want to get involved with openSUSE, but my hard drive isn't cooperating. I have an 80 gig Samsung, that I bought a while back. I'm trying to install openSUSE on it, and when it comes time to format it, after the status bar just says 0% for a while, an error pops up that says:

Failure occured during following action: Creating partition /dev/sda1 Error code -1008

Can somebody explain what's wrong?

barely :-( just to guess, launch the rescue system (a menu entry of the install media) and try fdisk /dev/sda1 to see if you can write on this disk (you can try the same partition sheme yast was proposing or any other) then mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 this is said supposing the disk is empty (if it's not, your initial move was tricky) if fdisk can't writes the partition, the disk may be failing jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org