Its quite simple, blank HDD, think nothing at all, nada Boot Suse 8.0 from CD, allow it do install as it suggested, I didnt change a thing. Everytime the installation began configuring the hard drive, it kept saying "cannot mount hdax to /mnt/" hdax varied depending on whether I was attempting a dual boot with an existing FAT32 Winxp partition Creating a partition in advance, and instructing YAST to format rather than create new worked -----Original Message----- From: Alain Barthélemy [mailto:bartydeux@gminformatique.com] Sent: 27 July 2002 07:29 To: Niki Blowfield Subject: Re: [SLE] problem installing Suse onto Dell notebook Hello, Please explain me. I don't understand what your problem was. Last week, I had a second-hand Dell Latitude CPx laptop with HD 6Gb. First I formatted it with W98 series II CD With the dos fdisk instruction available on the Windoze disk I created a c:\ partition of 1Gb (I have unfortunately to install a small Windoze partitions because that damned Canoscan 650U does not have drivers for Linux, Canon is a little backwards). I installed then W98 without problem on c:\ (called /dev/hda in another language) Then, with SuSE-7.3 disk n°1 I started, after rebooting of course, installation of Linux. I used Yast1 (manual installation) because I always have had problems with Yast2 even if it looks now better. Yast1 detected immediately partition /dev/hda1 (what windowsians call :c\) and I choosed "manual partitioning" to avoid erasing of my Windoze partition. I add new partitions: primary /dev/hda2 that I mounted on /boot, secondary /disk/hda3 with the rest of disk space, then logical partitions /dev/hda5 (/root), /dev/hda7, etc ... Then installation of kernel 2.4**, then Lilo config then reboot .... and everything is OK Sorry I still don't understand what you were talking about. Alain Barthelemy Le Samedi 27 Juillet 2002 00:23, vous avez écrit :
Okay, I managed to get it installed on its own partition. The trick seemed to be to create the partitions in advance of running setup. Ideally, I need it to dual boot with XP down the line, but I'll tackle
that next week some time, at least I know how to get it running on its
own. Surprised it was different to installing on a desktop, which seemed a breeze getting it running with Win2k Adv Serv
Bit of background, I'm a Windows (surprise, surprise!) desktop and server admin of some 5 years, and we're looking at other alternatives for desktop and webserver machines
Cheers
Nik
-----Original Message----- From: Charles Griffin [mailto:cng3@yahoo.com] Sent: 26 July 2002 18:42 To: Suse Subject: RE: [SLE] problem installing Suse onto Dell notebook
--- Niki Blowfield
wrote: Hi Charles
I can do that, I have the HDD now with no partitions, I do have the S2D bootdisk from dell. What partitions do you create with FDISK for Linux?
I am booting from a floppy to start YAST, and everythings happening automatically, I'm merely reporting what YAST is telling me on the report prior to installation
Thanks for any further advice
I would first read through the FAQ I previously mentioned since it has some good advice about partitioning:
http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq/
Here's one way to go:
Erase all partitions with fdisk. Then use Dell s2d utility disk to create the s2d partition (if you choose to use the suspend to disk feature). Then, use fdisk to create a second partition to fill the rest of your drive (assuming you don't want to dual boot). Then, reboot your laptop and go into bios to change boot sequence so you can boot to your cdrom. Insert SuSE disk 1, reboot, and you're off. You can create all your linux partitions in Yast2 and they will start at /dev/hda2.
What's what I basically did and it worked great.
Good luck! Charles
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