On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:41:06AM -0600, satterwh@weblore.com wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:31, Emcek wrote:
you should have on the CD the folder /dosutils/... where you can find some tools (e.g.fips) to partition disk BEFORE you start installation. Also you can ask you friend for bootable DOS floppy disk with fdisk installed and just run Bill Gates's product.
Don't use DOS fdisk to create Linux partitions, though.
It can't be done by Linux? Interesting. I guess we *DO* need Windows. <g>
What about the need to run swapon? That can't be done by Dos.
I would be surprised if you can't get to some stage where you can partition the disk. Perhaps this is a missing feature in the installation process. Have you tried the 'manual' or 'text-only' version of the installation? Try using Alt-F2 or Alt-F3 to switch to another virtual console; you may find that you can then run fdisk, mkswap and swapon from there. If all else fails, you can download tomsrtbt, and use that to partition the disk. You still need to run swapon from SuSE, though... -- David Smith | Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 642724 1000 Aztec West | TINA: 065 2380 GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 Almondsbury | Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com BRISTOL, BS32 4SQ | Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk