On Saturday 08 September 2007 01:18, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 07 September 2007 11:49:51 pm Bob S wrote:
A while back I purchased a 250 GB Sata drive, intending to install different os's and or versions of SuSE. I installed 10.2 on my shiny new drive but I stupidly partitioned 3 primaries, /, /swap, and /home, and used the fourth primary for the extended partition. Dumb move - Out of partitions with about 150GB of free space. (I run 10.0 on another small IDE drive)
The extended partition is just a container for logical partitions, kind of virtual hard disk within real hard disk. So nothing to move, just add new partitions.
Yeah,assuming that I had made the extended partition to filll up the entire hard disk, but as I explained to Felix I cannot make the extended partion larger without deleting it.
My favorite for partitioning is command line program 'cfdisk', or recently YaST Partitioner that makes possible to prepare disk from partitioning and resizing to formating.
The Yast partitioner is the one complaining I am not allowed to do this.
I use cca 10 GB for installation.
Don't know what cca is.
For new installations I use old home directory, but create new users. That way changes in configuration of desktop (KDE, GNOME, other applications) doesn't interfere with older versions.
I don't follow what you are saying here. Use the old /home directory?
The newest tool to experiment with new versions of openSUSE, Live CDs, other distros, is virtual machine. In openSUSE you have options to use QEMU, VirtualBox or Xen, but you can opt for VMware, Parallels etc. For details just ask Google, there is few articles on openSUSE about virtual machines too.
Yeah, but any of these virtual solutions require disk space right? Not sure I understand the "virtual" concept. Can you point me to a faq, howto, URL? I understand the concept to run Windows stuff on Linux but why do virtual Linux on top of Linux? Doesn't make sense to me.
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