On 30 Apr 00, at 2:05, Kunal Shah wrote:
> When i tried to install suse from chip cd, it shows1.56 mb unallocated
> space, 500 mb extended dos and 2000mb primary dos but it refused saying
> that minimum installation required more space.
Sounds like you are using YaST2 for installation. Y2 had some
problems like reporting disk space in 6.3. You should use good old
YaST to carry out the setup. Just see that the correct image is
loaded, and the installation works just fine
> I know the space is not the problem but extended partition is the
> problem.
No...SuSE has no problems here, if RHL can do it, so can SuSE
> Extended dos partition can not be with suse in chip's cd.
> cause i have tried allocating 3000gb to primary dos and 1 gb unassinged.
3000GB prim DOS, wow!!
> Then it was ready to install suse.
> If this problem ( of extended dos partition ) is unsolvable then suse is
> useless for me.
> I think red hat doesn't have such restrictions.
Maybe the easiest way for u is to fire up rawrite and create a
bootdisk with the text install boot image, and then boot from fdd
> Some times back i have posted the same problem and someone suggested
> that ishould first create partition with redhat 6.1(boot from cd, create
> partion from disk drue, save changes, and reboot), in this case suse
> shows the 1.5 gb linux native partition but when i selected it for
> installation same message appears.
If u are comfortable with the druid partitioning tool, do so by all
means, it does not matter who partitions it, the disk should be
partitioned for Linux and the install will be smooth.
Bottomline, stick to YaST.
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