Hi Samn, Sam Clemens wrote:
In one of the screens near the beginning, there is an opportunity to "check media" before starting your installation. Did you do that to make sure that the DVD is correct?
No. Perhaps I did write my questions a bit unclear since the procedure is not very common: I did boot from a network-install CD. Instead of installing from the network I then followed the instructions on the webpage and entered install=hd:/dev/sda6/suse/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386.iso into the line with the bootoptions. Doing this starts the installation. But ... I do believe that the iso is OK, since the MD5 came out right.
Also, don't accept the default installation.
Quite clear, It wanted to install into a external USB drive.
In addition to a the partitions for swap, / and /home, I would advise ALSO slicing off some space for /tmp (on modern hard drives, 1 GB should be good), and /local and /opt for other software. Commercial products typically install themselves in /opt or in /local, or /usr/local. (make a symbolic link from /usr/local to /local).
Thanks, could you elaborate how to best do this with 20GB in a primary partition and 4GB in an extended partition? (This is what is left after my Windows installation and I would be quite unhappy to again move everything around with parted.)
Also, I advise using the XFS filesystem for /home, /local, /opt, and /tmp. Use Ext3 for / (and /boot if you decide to make that as a seperate partition).
Could you in a few word describe the advantages and disadvantages of XFS and Ext2? I am only familiar with NTFS and FAT. Regards, -- Michael Thomas Kirchner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org