Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > I've tried to add openSUSE 10.2 x64 a4 on a quite out of the box new > Dell Precision 490 workstation (Xeon 5160, NVidia FX550 Quadro, USB > mouse, 250 GB Samsung SATA disk, 2 GB RAM) which was preloaded with > WinXP on a single 233 GB NTFS partition. > > Beside the known mouse/keyboard cursor problems (recent comments #22 and > #23 to bug id 203609), I encountered a 10.2 faulty and somewhat strange > diskpartitioning. In the lack of a suggested diskpartitiong for a Xen > server(does it exist?), I thought to try a traditional dual/multiboot > partitioning first. ... > I would expect this is a bug in the 10.2 x64 a4 partitioning, as it > works with 10.1. > > I also wonder why the swap partition was sized to 2 GB only, while it > normally is suggested as 2xRAM (2 GB)? I could neither find an easy way > to extend the suggested swap partition, based on the default suggestion. > > And lastly, how to really partition the disk for running Xen server with > WinXP and SUSE 10.2 (utilizing Intel-VT)?
Please, report it as a bug and attach all YaST logs. http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST I've asked the partitioner's maintainer/developer and he replied that he'd like to have it reported that way (the standard way for reporting bugs). Thanks Lukas
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