On 2009/06/19 19:55 (GMT-0400) Lucky Leavell composed:
I have a new Lenovo G530 laptop that came with Vista in three partitions:
1. Vista Preload 2. Main Vista 3. Lenovo Recovery
All are NTFS. I installed 11.1 from DVD shrinking the main Vista partition to make room.
Best plan with a Vista machine that never had anything else on it before is to use Vista's built-in partition resizer to shrink first, then boot the Linux install CD and use the space you freed up using Vista. Wierd things often happen if you don't, because alignments in Vista's partitioning scheme are often different from traditional partitioning, "cylinder" multiples of 1G Vista vs. 7.8G traditional. I'd try to restore the original Vista configuration with its recovery system, then shrink Vista using Vista, then try installing 11.1 in the space Vista made available. -- "Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle." Proverbs 23:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org