Hi,

Know I like it to use my Sata 400 GB HD for my Suse 10.0 and for winXP.
In a future I like to use other linux on the same HD.
Could any one please of you give me hand how to solve it?

Schneemann

If you have free (unformatted) space, it's easy - just put the new linux distro in the unformatted space.

Otherwise you'll have to shrink the existing partitions first - qtparted is apparently quite good at this...

Yes it is a brand new Ext. harddrive and i like to partitioning in
4 groups,is it possible?.
Does suse 10.0 recon. my big harddrive?

Suse should detect it the second you plug it in. If you're trying to install Suse from scratch onto it, that all depends on if your BIOS supports booting from a USB/firewire port.
I've got an older AMD board so no go for me on that one.

Good partitioning programs are QTParted or Partition Magic. I've used both. QTParted is great out of the box on Knoppix live.

Hope this helps.

I will look into get a new laptop/notebook end of the year 2006 and it should work with no problemis it?

By Ext, do you mean an external drive?? I've never read of anyone succeeding in installing SuSE-10.0 on an external hard drive, without having boot problems. In all cases that I have read about, after installing SuSE on the external hard drive, the only way they were able to boot to SuSE was with the Installation/Rescue CD/DVD in the CD/DVD drive.

So nobody can help me?
But I will try to use on my new laptop next year with a friend of my may I can recall all of about AMIGA Computer ,my friend know about AMIGA computer + windows and of course any linux (Mandriva, suse ,caldera...) OS.To bad no one can help me?

Of course, you can install linux on external drive and boot it too. I have 3 different distros of linux installed on external hard drive connected to my laptop with a BIOS capable of booting from USB. It is perfectly allright to install linux on external hard drive. Even if your BIOS doesn't allow you to boot from USB or if you wanna use firewire (which is faster than USB and which is what I'm using at present), there's a work around which you can use to boot linux residing on external drive. The "boot problems" are easily solvable. Itz just a matter of loading the right driver modules during boot up.
If you've got 1 400 GB HD, I'd suggest you create several smaller partitions which would make it more manageable and faster too. If you wanna install XP on the external drive, you'd install XP to the first primary partition and install linux in any of the remaining partitions.
If you wanna more about this come back and tell me.

kevkim55,
in case if it is not working I can still type

password: root <-- put this in and ENTER

you will get

Rescue:~# <-- this is your prompt

2.Enter as follows (each line is a seperate prompt so finish the line with a CR)
ENTER = CR

mkdir /mnt/suse
mount /dev/sdax /mnt/suse
chroot /mnt/suse

3.You are now at the root of the installed SUSE. Now to edit the first file with vi.

vi /etc/sysconfig/kernel

With this command the kernel file will be displayed.

scroll down to the line INITRD_MODULES=""

Go to the last item in the line and add the following list of items allowing 1 space between then on the same line- do not use a CR.

ehci-hcd ohci-hcd uhci-hcd sd_mod usb-storage

make sure this addition in in the quotes("")

to exit vi hit ESC then use the following to save the file

:wq <-- one of the save and quite codes for vi

4. Now generate the new initrd with the following commands

mount -tproc none /proc

mkinitrd

After this you will get some lines of read out- make a note of the two lines that will have the kernel numbers
vmlinuz-<data> and initrd-<data> the data will be in the form of 2.6.13-8-default or some such. This is needed for the next step.

5. Now use vi to edit the following file

vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

Look for a series of lines similar to the following and edit to include the above saved data for all SUSE listings.

title SUSE 10
kernel(hd0,X)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-8-default ro etc
initrd (hd0,X)/boot/initrd-2.6.13-8-default

note 0 is your drive letter and X is parition number - 1
ie sda1 = hd0,0


If it still does not boot it may be necessary to do some more editing but lets get this far for now.

exit and reboot.

I will watch this thread to see how you make out.

kevkim55 thank you for your time and your help


schneemann