Started to intall 11.4 on a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. Installation from DVD downloaded (MDsum checked). After the various choices of partioning and software (accepted defaults for partionning and mostly for software), when installation begins, it stops almost immediately with:
failure occurred during following action: creating volume /dev/sd7. System error code was: -1007
sda7 was to be the swap; sda8 root (ext4), and sd9 home (ext4). sda1 is Windows/C; sda2 is Windows/D. I suspect the reason for using 7, 8, and 9 is that this is the third try, and that the first one set up 3,4 and 5. The Windows partition appears to have been correctly shrunk, and Windows will still boot. The installation suggests these three linux partitions be set up (and gives me the chace to alter them), so my guess is that there is space there but unpartitioned.
When the error is presented, it asks if I want to go ahead anyway: so far I have said no.
Machine specs: Intel mobile i5-241M 2.3Ghz; NVIDIA GT 555M 2GB PCIe; 8 GB DDR-3 1333; motherboard: Intel HM65 Express Chipset Mainboard.
Suggestions?
Many thanks!
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On 2011-06-30 23:23, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Suggestions?
hand partition and format from a linux live.
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Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)
On 06/30/2011 05:33 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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On 2011-06-30 23:23, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Suggestions?
hand partition and format from a linux live.
He could use "Expert" mode to partition during the install.
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:07:53 -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE suse-list3@bout-tyme.net wrote:
On 06/30/2011 05:33 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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On 2011-06-30 23:23, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Suggestions?
hand partition and format from a linux live.
He could use "Expert" mode to partition during the install.
Thanks for both suggestions: I am not however enough of an expert to do either without more detailed instructions. Are they around somewhere? Or if you can tell me, let me know what details you need from me. The installation routine proposes what seems a reasonable partition scheme. But for some reason gags on the creation of the first linux partition (swap).
Thanks.
Fr O.
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On Thursday, 2011-06-30 at 19:22 -0400, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Suggestions?
hand partition and format from a linux live.
He could use "Expert" mode to partition during the install.
Thanks for both suggestions: I am not however enough of an expert to do either without more detailed instructions. Are they around somewhere? Or if you can tell me, let me know what details you need from me. The installation routine proposes what seems a reasonable partition scheme. But for some reason gags on the creation of the first linux partition (swap).
I'm sorry, but it is too long to explain here. I know how to do it, but I don't feel up to writing it up. The SUSE documentation (doc.opensuse.org) might explain it some, not sure.
Basically, I would use "fdisk /dev/something" to create the partition, them mkswap to format it for swap.
The main problem is that I have no idea what the error 1007 means. I hate undocumented numeric error codes.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)
On 6/30/11 11:23 PM, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Started to intall 11.4 on a new laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed. Installation from DVD downloaded (MDsum checked). After the various choices of partioning and software (accepted defaults for partionning and mostly for software), when installation begins, it stops almost immediately with:
failure occurred during following action: creating volume /dev/sd7. System error code was: -1007
sda7 was to be the swap; sda8 root (ext4), and sd9 home (ext4). sda1 is Windows/C; sda2 is Windows/D. I suspect the reason for using 7, 8, and 9 is that this is the third try, and that the first one set up 3,4 and 5. The Windows partition appears to have been correctly shrunk, and Windows will still boot. The installation suggests these three linux partitions be set up (and gives me the chace to alter them), so my guess is that there is space there but unpartitioned.
When the error is presented, it asks if I want to go ahead anyway: so far I have said no.
Machine specs: Intel mobile i5-241M 2.3Ghz; NVIDIA GT 555M 2GB PCIe; 8 GB DDR-3 1333; motherboard: Intel HM65 Express Chipset Mainboard.
Suggestions?
Many thanks!
As far as I know, W7 creates extra partitions for itself besides C and D, which will be /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3. If it creates all as primary, you could only proceed with a secondary and some additional logical drives. A max of 4 primary partitions are allowed. I normally edit the proposed partitioning. Best is if you post the partition map proposed at install with openSUSE 11.4.
Reading this beforehand should answer most questions: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Partition/. If you get stuck, then ask at this forum again.
:-) Al
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