Chris Keenan wrote:
>
> I've mentioned earlier my current situation where I've got a 2nd HD
> that I want to do a 2nd SuSE install on (a belated thanks to Zentara
> and George Toft for their suggestions), but in looking into it I've
> found that in the YaST disk partition setup menu my swap disk is
> 'greyed out', so I can't change its type even if I wanted to
> (presumably I could in fdisk). I'm curious as to how this could have
> arisen. Ideas?
My guess:
It is probably greyed out because it is currently in use
by the distribution you are running yast under. The swap
partitions get a "signature" placed on them, saying
what system they belong to.
I found it is best to boot from the floppy boot disk
when trying to install a second system. That way the
swap partition is not in use, and can have it's
signature overwritten.
I've done this, and get a warning message, saying the
"selected swap partition has a valid signature, are you
sure you want to overwrite it?
Just to be safe, why not just make a second swap file
for your second installation? It's only a relatively
small amount of megs.
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