Hi
Thanks for the reply, could you explain in detail how to create the
partitions in partition magic? What type to create etc?
Will YAST recognise them and use them, or do I need to manually select them
during setup?
thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerhard den Hollander [mailto:gerhard@jason.nl]
Sent: 26 July 2002 13:19
To: Charles Griffin
Cc: Suse
Subject: Re: [SLE] problem installing Suse onto Dell notebook
* 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 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com