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erik＠urbakken.dk

18 Nov 2001 18 Nov '01

10:52

Hi. I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C6155 with a win98SE partition on 10GB. The full capacity of the HDD is 20GB. The last and free 10GB I want to install with SuSE 7.3. Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??. Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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Jon Pennington

18 Nov 18 Nov

10:59

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At 04:52 AM 11/18/01, you wrote:

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Are you sure you're not overreacting? I have a 10GB *total* disk that I installed SuSE to (Win98 on the first 2GB), and the installer offered me an option of shrinking, but also offered me the option of simply using the remaining space... -- -=|JP|=- '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | <))>< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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erik＠urbakken.dk

11:10

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Date sent: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 04:59:01 -0600 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com From: Jon Pennington Subject: Re: [SLE] Laptop

At 04:52 AM 11/18/01, you wrote:

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Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Are you sure you're not overreacting? I have a 10GB *total* disk that I installed SuSE to (Win98 on the first 2GB), and the installer offered me an option of shrinking, but also offered me the option of simply using the remaining space...

Hi Jon. I'm not sure what you are meaning with "overreacting" ??. I was not offered to use the remaining space.

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Ralph Sanford

18:05

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On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 04:10, erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

Date sent: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 04:59:01 -0600 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com From: Jon Pennington Subject: Re: [SLE] Laptop

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At 04:52 AM 11/18/01, you wrote:

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Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Are you sure you're not overreacting? I have a 10GB *total* disk that I installed SuSE to (Win98 on the first 2GB), and the installer offered me an option of shrinking, but also offered me the option of simply using the remaining space...

Hi Jon. I'm not sure what you are meaning with "overreacting" ??.

I was not offered to use the remaining space.

I installed 7.3 on to my laptop yesterday so my recollection of the sequence is pretty good. SuSE recommended a shrink of WinME to 4 GB and the options were: 1. Accept recommendation 2. Modify recommendation 3. Discard recommendation I chose Item 3 and then selected custom partitioning on the next installer screen. With custom partitioning everyone can be happy. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01

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wolfi

11:06

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On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 11:52, erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

Hi.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C6155 with a win98SE partition on 10GB. The full capacity of the HDD is 20GB.

The last and free 10GB I want to install with SuSE 7.3.

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

Maybe it's a clever program? (honestly_speaking) 4GB is by long enough for an OS you don't need anymore (/honestly_speaking) .... Well, ok., I don't have a *good* explanation for this. Can you ignore this and leave it to 10GB and go on the way you wanted or will it stop you from doing so? Wolfi ================================== mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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erik＠urbakken.dk

11:35

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From: wolfi To: SuSE List Date sent: 18 Nov 2001 12:06:38 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] Laptop

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 11:52, erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

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Hi.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C6155 with a win98SE partition on 10GB. The full capacity of the HDD is 20GB.

The last and free 10GB I want to install with SuSE 7.3.

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

Maybe it's a clever program? (honestly_speaking) 4GB is by long enough for an OS you don't need anymore (/honestly_speaking) .... Well, ok., I don't have a *good* explanation for this. Can you ignore this and leave it to 10GB and go on the way you wanted or will it stop you from doing so?

Maybe its is. I do not know. I can choose the partitions as I want, but like to know why 7.3 come with the shrink suggestion, as there is space enough - with a 10GB partition - to do an install.

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Med venlig hilsen -Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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Eva von Pepel

11:46

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On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:52:51 +0100 erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

The same happens while installing SuSE 7.2, as though SuSE was expecting only one Windows-partition. To find your "lost" partition click on expert partitioning. Alternatively delete the free partition and let SuSE do the job - you'll get a chance to decide how much to shrink /e

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erik＠urbakken.dk

19 Nov 19 Nov

18:02

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Date sent: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:46:42 +0100 From: Eva von Pepel To: erik@urbakken.dk Copies to: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Laptop

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:52:51 +0100 erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

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Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

The same happens while installing SuSE 7.2, as though SuSE was expecting only one Windows-partition. To find your "lost" partition click on expert partitioning. Alternatively delete the free partition and let SuSE do the job - you'll get a chance to decide how much to shrink /e

I have an other computer running 7.2, but had not the same problem. It has a 10GB of WIN98SE, and 20GB for 7.2. Med venlig hilsen -Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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John Lamb

18 Nov 18 Nov

11:54

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I encountered something similar on an old 300 Mhz PII installing 7.3 to dual boot with NT. The 7.3 installer wanted to shrink a partition from 1 Gb to 390 Mb and didn't offer an alternative that I felt confident would preserve the data on the partition. I solved this one by deleting all the partitions on NT above the 1 Gb one. Then the 7.3 installer didn't offer to resize and installation could continue. I had defragmented the 1 Gb (vfat16) partition by copying the data back and forward between a higher partition; so all the data was in the first 390 Mb. Unfortunately, if I'd shrunk the partition there wouldn't have been any room left for new data. JDL erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

Hi.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C6155 with a win98SE partition on 10GB. The full capacity of the HDD is 20GB.

The last and free 10GB I want to install with SuSE 7.3.

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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erik＠urbakken.dk

19 Nov 19 Nov

18:02

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Date sent: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:54:22 +0000 From: John Lamb To: erik@urbakken.dk Copies to: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Laptop

I encountered something similar on an old 300 Mhz PII installing 7.3 to dual boot with NT. The 7.3 installer wanted to shrink a partition from 1 Gb to 390 Mb and didn't offer an alternative that I felt confident would preserve the data on the partition.

I solved this one by deleting all the partitions on NT above the 1 Gb one. Then the 7.3 installer didn't offer to resize and installation could continue.

But how can I do the same here John ?.

I had defragmented the 1 Gb (vfat16) partition by copying the data back and forward between a higher partition; so all the data was in the first 390 Mb. Unfortunately, if I'd shrunk the partition there wouldn't have been any room left for new data.

Exactly what I had in mind :-)

JDL

erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

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Hi.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C6155 with a win98SE partition on 10GB. The full capacity of the HDD is 20GB.

The last and free 10GB I want to install with SuSE 7.3.

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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Med venlig hilsen -Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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Jerry Kreps

18 Nov 18 Nov

15:19

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On Sunday 18 November 2001 04:52, erik@urbakken.dk wrote:

Hi.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C6155 with a win98SE partition on 10GB. The full capacity of the HDD is 20GB.

The last and free 10GB I want to install with SuSE 7.3.

Why are the 7.3 suggesting a shrinking of the WIN98 partition to 4GB ??.

It is being polite? It could have recommended 0%. :) (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk

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erik＠urbakken.dk
Eva von Pepel
Jerry Kreps
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Jon Pennington
Ralph Sanford
wolfi