Re: 10.2 partitioning. Sucks!

Rajko M. wrote:

If you managed SUSE Linux 10.1 than openSUSE 10.2 should be a cake walk. The Expert Partitioning:
- will list swap and all other partitions,
- will obey limits that you set
so I don't know what you call expert mode. There are 2 other choices based
on YaST proposal, that are not expert mode.

I also had problems with the partitioning. It looked to me as if the swap partition must be "formatted" somehow, before SuSE can use it. At least it was not sufficient to set the partition type to "swap". I could solve that problem, using another VM with a working Linux, adding the swap partition as another virtual drive, and formatting it for a swap partition. Then I could resume to install SuSE 10.2, using that drive for swap.

As long as I'm not sure which Linux to use, I'm happy with virtual machines, which I can swap in and out without any trouble for my host system.

DoDi
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