my main question is really: what's the extra partition that windows is adding in? under win2k, the 4gig HD shows as 4gigs, but during the suse install, it shows as a 3.7gig primary and a 300meg partition. if i've got a windows swap partition and delete it with windows fdisk, will the additional space be taken up by win or left as 'unpartitioned'? i was also wondering what would be a good file system choice? (fat16/fat32) i'm going to slave a 30gig drive to the windows partition, so i'm going to need large disk support -- can linux read fat16/32? i'm looking to share some info from each OS (well, win to linux, really.) i thought linux was able to read NTFS5...or is it just that YaST2 won't read NTFS? -d. charles said:
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 (-: _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
It is difficult to say exactly what that extra bit of space is. If you have installed W2K with suspend to disk, then it may be the partition that is used for that. I don't know the details, I am just thinking out loud. If the partition were only 30MB or less, I would be tempted to think it is just slop left over from bad arithmetic on MS' part, but at 300MB, it seems the right size for a 256MB RAM machine. As for Linux reading NTFS partitions, I have no problems with dual booting W2K with NTFS5 partitions and SuSE 7.1 with the stock 2.4.0-4GB kernel, and mounting and reading the NTFS partitions, as long as I don't have anything encrypted. I think what the previous poster was saying is that Yast can't move around MS NTFS partitions, and suggested using a PartitionMagic like product for that purpose. hth, -ronc On Tuesday 31 July 2001 16:13, yuk bon wrote:
my main question is really: what's the extra partition that windows is adding in? under win2k, the 4gig HD shows as 4gigs, but during the suse install, it shows as a 3.7gig primary and a 300meg partition. if i've got a windows swap partition and delete it with windows fdisk, will the additional space be taken up by win or left as 'unpartitioned'?
i was also wondering what would be a good file system choice? (fat16/fat32) i'm going to slave a 30gig drive to the windows partition, so i'm going to need large disk support -- can linux read fat16/32? i'm looking to share some info from each OS (well, win to linux, really.)
i thought linux was able to read NTFS5...or is it just that YaST2 won't read NTFS?
-d.
charles said:
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 (-:
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