-----Original Message----- From: yuk bon [mailto:a_bell_is_a_cup_until_it_is_struck@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 4:34 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] suse7.1 w/ win2k question

a question i hope can be answered here -- i've checked the SuSE site and various other sites for help/howto's etc:

i'm trying to do a dual boot install with win2k and suse 7.1; machine specs: 4gig HD, pII, 128ram. reading the install instructions that came with suse, it says if the drive is 1 big partition (ie just 1 primary partition) that during install yast2 will start up a repartitioning program; when i get to that part, yast sees the drive as partitioned (one 3.7 gig part and one 3meg partition) and wont start the repartitioning program at all. under windows, the drive is shown as a single 4 gig partition -- can someone tell me what's happening? (and how to fix, which is more important.)

answers would be appreciated, or a link to a relevant web page would be equally welcome.

-d.

If you installed Win2K using NTFS then yast is not going to be able to do anything with it. You will need to use some other partitioning program, i.e. PartitionMagic, SystemCommander to reduce the size of the 2K partition and then install SuSE in the free space it creates. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.