https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364741 Summary: No suggested partitioning provided by installation tool Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Alpha 2 Platform: i386 URL: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=ST&f=52& t=65080&st=0#entry264495 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: lee_matheson@hotmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Other The openSUSE-11.0 alpha-2 partitioner had problems with my PC's old 80GByte Maxtor-6L080J4 (PATA) hard drive, where no suggested partition was provided by the installation tool. I aborted the install at this point (as opposed to attempting a manual partition setup). I have successfully used the openSUSE partitioner with openSUSE-10.3-alpha2 to 10.3-GM with no problems with this hard drive. In the case of openSUSE-10.3 alpha3 to GM, the partitioner proposed a setup for openSUSE, which I was then able to easily edit in the advanced settings. In the case of 11.0 alpha2, there was absolutely no suggestion provided. I believe this would be blocking for a Newbie. I obtained the error message: "The partitioning on disk /dev/sda is not readable by the partitioning tool, which is used to change the partition table. You can use the partitions on /dev/sda as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool". A further error message under "Suggested Partitioning" was: "No automatic proposal possible: Specify mount points manually in the 'Partitioner' dialog". For info, the hard drive's current partition details (from my 10.3 PC YaST partitioner) that gave this 11.0-alpha2 partitioner problems were the following setup on my drive: /dev/sda 74.5 GB Maxtor-6L080J4 0-9731 /dev/sda1 250.9 MB FAT16 /windows/C 0-31 /dev/sda2 1.0 GB Linux Swap 32-162 /dev/sda3 73.3 GB Extended 163-9731 /dev/sda5 14.6 GB Linux Native /home/oldcpu/suse102boot 163-2074 /dev/sda6 24.4 GB Linux Native /home/oldcpu/suse102root 2075-5261 /dev/sda7 14.6 GB Linux Native / 5262-7173 /dev/sda8 19.5 GB Linux Native /home 7174-9731 The /dev/sda1 FAT16 partition has FreeDOS installed (and not MS-Windows). I have openSUSE-10.2 (on sda5 and sda6) and openSUSE-10.3 (on sda7 and sda8) installed and running on this PC. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.