On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 22:49, Joe Zien wrote:
I want to install SuSE 7.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS laptop. I made the laptop boot floppy and the rescue disk. Using them, I mounted the c:\ drive on /windows/C and using
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Using PM 4.0, I shrunk the c:\ drive and created an ext2 partition as a test and canceled the change, I am not sure if this would mess up the c:\ drive.
The question--- Should I proceed and shrink the c:\ drive and create the ext2 partition using PM 4.0 and install SuSE 7.0?
jozien
I have a Toshiba 2800 that I have installed SuSE 7.1 -> SuSE 8.0 on and used as a dual boot computer without problems. I used Partition Magic to shrink the original WinME down to the small size that it deserved. Partitioning CAN be a bit of a problem as each operating system seems to have their own method and interpretation of what the partitions should look like. It is my recommendation that you use the appropriate tool for each operating system to set up the partitions that will be used for each operating system. PM 4.0 is a windows centric utility and is very good for changing the windows partition. Use PM 4.0 to shrink your existing windows partition; and I would use PM 4.0 to convert all your hard disk not used for windows to an extended partition. This would likely result in 3 primary like partitions (the Toshiba partition, Windows C, and the extended). The partitions that Windows can see will have been created by a windows oriented utility and windows should work merrily away within its reduced partition. PM 4.0 can create logical Ext2 partition within the extended partition, but so can the SuSE Install and when all is said and done what you really want is partitions that SuSE will work well with. Plus PM 4.0 is only capable of producing Ext2 and linux swap partitions, and you were going to use a journal file system weren't you? After windows has been reduced, install SuSE on the remainder of the HDD in the extended partition. Use "expert partitioning" and create partitions in the free space within the extended partition. Use SuSE to create and format whatever partition you want SuSE to use, with whatever type of file system that you want. My Toshiba has used SuSE with Ext2, ReiserFS, swap, XFS, ReiserFS encrypted, and XFS encrypted partitions and they all worked fine. In summary use a windows tool to create/modify windows partitions and use a linux tool to create/modify Linux partitions. PS why use SuSE 7.0?? I do not know about the Toshiba 2545, but on my Toshiba 2800 using SuSE 7.1 was a bit rough; going to 7.2 was dramatically easier with automatic LAN and sound card setup plus the LT-modem setup seemed to go smoother. IIRC SuSE 7.2 was the first to include encrypted file systems, which is very nice on a laptop especially one that is at risk through a lot of traveling. PPS partitioning can put your data at risk. The above recommendations have worked for me for several years, however, YMMV. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? GPG/PGP ID - 0x7A1BEA01