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I am new to Linux. I have a Dell 9100 with Windows xp
One harddrive with 80 MEG. I FREED UP ABOUT 1OMEG WITH PARTITION MAGIC, LEAVING THE SEGMENT UNALLOCATED.
cHANGED THE BOOT SEQUENCE TO BOOT FROM CD. i AM TRYING TO LOAD SUSE 9.X ON THAT SEGMENT. lINUX COMES UP WITH NO DRIVE FOUND.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG. ANY SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED.
I really hate to burst your bubble, but the purpose of this forum is: New to LinuxQuestions.org? Been a long time member but never made a post? Introduce yourself here.
You should contact a moderator and ask him to move this thread to the SuSE Forum.
i believe I created the partition using Partition Magic by resizing an existing partition creating an unallocated space on the drive.
I have read on the boards that maybe I need 2 partitions extra, one small partition for swap?? and another for the OS.
You will need a swap and a / (root) partition at the minimum. Lots more to consider, but what Mara is trying to say is that you can't install to unallocated space, you must partition that space. Your distro of choice should format that space when you install. Well, I don't know anything about SuSE, but Slackware does the formatting if you desire.
First of all, suse can autopartition this for you at the install-fase.
Second: there is also a Suse version 10.0 downloadable: http://www.opensuse.org/
The standard size for a swap partition is 2 times larger than your ram and most people use 1 gig as swap. The rest for root.
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