Yast partitioning failure
hi! I'm trying to install 8.1 in such a Hard Disk: hda1 NTFS partition hda2 extended hda5 Logical Fat32 hda6 logical fat32 all the partitions have been created by using MS-Dos fdisk (then hda1 converted to NTFS) During installation, Yast doesn't see any of those partitions and keeps telling me that hda is empty. I booted ramlinux floppy, knoppyx and phlak 0.2 and they correctly see all the partitions. Reading boot messages during Yast starting I saw a line saying: checking hda...... hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6> So, what's the problem? I also checked the mailing list archive, but... Thanks Ferdinando
The Friday 2004-01-30 at 19:33 +0100, Ferdy Bassi wrote:
hda1 NTFS partition hda2 extended hda5 Logical Fat32 hda6 logical fat32
all the partitions have been created by using MS-Dos fdisk (then hda1 converted to NTFS)
During installation, Yast doesn't see any of those partitions and keeps telling me that hda is empty.
Do you have free partition space? Maybe you need to free some space, manually, and even create a linux partition there. It could be a confused error message: I don't think SuSE 8.1 can shrink an ntfs partition.
checking hda...... hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>
That's the kernel, not Yast.
I also checked the mailing list archive, but...
Well, 8.1 is old, over a year :-p -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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