Re: [SLE] Cannot upgrade to 9.2

From: Marc Chamberlin (marcc_at_easystreet.com)
Date: 02/18/05

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    Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:08:32 -0800
To: suselinux@cehartung.com

    Carl E. Hartung wrote:

    >
    >
    >
    >>I do have a lot of partitions on my disk drives, mostly Fat32
    >>and NFS for Windows (my computer is a dual, actual three Win98,
    >>Win2000 and Linux) boot system and I wonder if having a lot of
    >>partitions might be confusing the install scripts?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >You /did/ mean "NTFS," didn't you? And it's possible you've exceeded a
    >limitation of some kind that requires manual intervention. Since you've
    >brought it up, can you post details about your drives and partitioning
    >scheme?
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Thanks again Carl for your suggestions... I haven't been able to work
    much on this installation problem as I had to work long and late
    yesterday... Anywise here is the FDISK info on my disk drives that you
    requested.... And yes I did mean NTFS, that was a typo error....

    Disk /dev/hda: 13.0 GB, 13020069888 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1582 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 * 1 836 6715138+ b W95 FAT32
    /dev/hda2 837 1582 5992245 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/hda5 837 1219 3076416 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hda6 1220 1582 2915766 7 HPFS/NTFS

    Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
    16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 232581 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdb1 15635 232513 109306260 5 Extended
    Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
    /dev/hdb2 * 1 15635 7879851 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hdb5 15635 21723 3068383+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hdb6 21723 26122 2216938+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hdb7 26122 42060 8032468+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hdb8 42060 54252 6144831 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hdb9 54252 83975 14980581 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hdb10 83975 88167 2112516 82 Linux swap
    /dev/hdb11 88167 232513 72750321 83 Linux

    Partition table entries are not in disk order

        Marc.... 

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