Thanks for your suggestion. I actually got it working so below is a summary of what I did for the benefit of anyone else having the same problem:
1. Deleted any of the partitions created for/by linux (leaving the Windows main partition, the recovery partition and the dell utility partition) using the windows disk manager 2. Created the two required partitions for Linux again using windows. This time I explicitly went back into the settings for each of the new partitions and set them to be "Extended". Yast is now happy to proceed with formatting. According to the posting below from the Windows Vista blog, the disk manager is supposed to just do the *right thing* when it comes to partitions being either primary or extended. I don't want to spend too much time troubleshooting this but it seems to have got a bit confused on this occasion. http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/10/16/how-to-create-an-extended-partition-in-windows-vista.aspx This would also seem to indicate a bug in Yast since the initial install was done by accepting all of the defaults with a vanilla partition table. Anyway, hopefully the above posting will prove useful to someone. -phil On Monday 30 July 2007 17:08, Kenneth Aar wrote: > Philip Bradley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA > > drive (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast > > tries to format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is > > reported: > > > > > > Failure occurred during the following action: > > Setting type of partition /dev/sda6 to 83 > > > > System error code was: -1012 > > When you boot off the DVD, try the option called "Installation--ACPI > Disabeled". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
