Re: [SLE] Yast partitioning failure

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 01/31/04

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    The Friday 2004-01-30 at 19:33 +0100, Ferdy Bassi wrote:

    > hda1 NTFS partition
    > hda2 extended
    > hda5 Logical Fat32
    > hda6 logical fat32
    >
    > all the partitions have been created by using MS-Dos fdisk (then hda1
    > converted to NTFS)
    >
    > During installation, Yast doesn't see any of those partitions and keeps
    > telling me that hda is empty.

    Do you have free partition space? Maybe you need to free some space,
    manually, and even create a linux partition there. It could be a confused
    error message: I don't think SuSE 8.1 can shrink an ntfs partition.

    > checking hda...... hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>

    That's the kernel, not Yast.

    > I also checked the mailing list archive, but...

    Well, 8.1 is old, over a year :-p

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