How do I partition so Red Hat and SuSE share the same swap file.

sjia · 01-31-2004, 01:46 AM

I have SuSE installed. I am trying to install Red Hat. I keep getting an error message saying can't boot from logical drive during the partition segment. I believe it is refering to the swap file. I can't partition until I fix this problem. How do I get Red Hat to recognize the existing swap file so I can share it with SuSE and Red Hat.

claudius753 · 01-31-2004, 03:45 AM

Do you already have free space on your HD for the RH partitions (other than swap, of course)? For some reason in RH 9 i couldn't resize any partions to make room for red hat and got an error that sound similar.

Using a different program to first resize partition to make free space and then installing RH cleared it up for me. I wasn't trying to use the same swap though, so not sure.

Nathan

sjia · 01-31-2004, 07:18 AM

Well, that's one step in the right direction.

sjia · 01-31-2004, 08:26 AM

Thanks Claudius. I installed Red Hat easily after I free up a partition.