* Charles Griffin
Trying to install Suse onto a Dell Notebook Has a 20gb HDD, no existing partitions
I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I have SuSE on my Dell notebook and it works great. From what I've read, in fact, Dell is one of the best supported notebooks in Linux.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/ The yahoo groups FAQ is excellent.
except that http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq seems to be unreachable (http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq is where the yahoo! groups! Faq! resides). As for the problem, I've installed linux on a variety of Dell laptops and only once bumped into this problem. Since I had partitionmagic at hand, I manually made the partitions using partitionmagic and used that. if you do not have partition magic you can try sfdisk from the boot CD something like sfdisk /dev/hda 0,1, 1,1042,S 1043, (creates a 1 cylinder /dev/hda (as /boot) a 1024 cylinder swap and the rest oas 1 partition) But double check the sfdisk manpage before using it ;) Currently listening to: Nine Inch Nails - Still (Limited Edition Bonus C - And All That Could Have Been Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O The trouble with reality, is that it's taken much too seriously =`\<, The only one who's good to me, is Santa Claus, a fantasy (=)/(=) Let's Celebrate This party's over, I'm going home