im not running it from windows, im on a separate computer right now looking in the SuSE CD.
I wiped the hard drive of my other computer playing around with partitions.
How do I do It now that all I have is my SuSE CD, and a blank computer with not enough RAM?

what program do I use to create the Linux Partitions (Ext2 and Swap), and WHERE CAN I GET IT.

seperate issue:
are you using the suse install disk, and the step-by-step install that it offers? if you are, then the install should set the swap partition for you.

edit: and windows won't be able to use suse's fdisk. that's a bootable cd... you need to boot it to use what's on it.

I am using the SuSE 9.1 Personal Install disk that I downloaded from SuSE.com.

Do you mean Manual Install?

I have to have ACPI off, or else it hangs. The Manual option doesn't allow for you to have ACPI disabled.

on the boot loader, where you would type "install=ftp:...." to show the ftp location, add the phrase "acpi=off"

***There is NO partition manager available on boot***
What free program can I download (and where can I download it), that can create the Ext2 and Swap partitions?

This might help.... Nope, it just gives me 2 more options before bringing me back to the Linuxrc 1.6 Main Menu.... (Read above post)

Somehow you got a SuSE disk without Yast? Yast is the program that can partition (and do other things), it is supposed to be in your disk.
Maybe you should try another distro of Linux and see if that install is easier for you. Once you have Linux up and running, you can learn more about it and then maybe go back to SuSE. I tried several and am still trying them out.
One thing I've found is that I will get different options while installing depending on if I install graphically or with text only. I don't know why this should be but it's true. Maybe if you do have YAST, try to install with text only and see if it gives you the option to turn off the APCI while letting Yast do the other stuff (making partitions).
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Follow the link for a STEP BY STEP guide...

And if you come back saying it is for slackware, read farther. You just need the fdisk part at the beggining. Oh... It has pictures for you too...

I just ran into this same problem while walking my mom through an install.
There is no time earlier in the install where it is possible to format, partition, or otherwise do anything to the disk.

The first time you are able to do this is after Yast already starts which it will not do.

I was doing an install on one of my machines at the same time so I could follow along, and it worked fine for me with 192 MB ram, but Yast failed to start due to insufficient memory for her with 128MB Ram.

This is with the SuSE 9.1 boot.iso.

How can you partition a disk and set up a linux swap partition starting with a brand new blank hard drive?

The CD-ROM has YaST, and i know that for a fact, because i installed it on another computer, but unfortunately my computer doesnt have enough memory to run YaST, which brings me to my original question (rephrased):How do i create a swap partition within Windows/DOS for Linux?

I am in the middle of a similar experience as the ones described above.. I am making some headway though... once you get the message that YaST won't load and you need to specify a swap partition, you can hit ALT-F9 to get to a shell prompt. Fdisk appears to be fully functional at that prompt for me. I managed to setup the partitions I need, and changed /dev/hda2 to a type 82 (linux swap) partition.

Basically you will need to:

create partitions:

/> fdisk /dev/hda (then use the help to create your partitions)

then format partitions:

/> mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda? (for whatever you created)

then designate swap file:

/> mkswap /dev/hda? (whichever partition you want for swap)

Then you can ALT-F1 back to the installer and it should take your /dev/hda? partition name (whereever you put it)


Hope some of this helps...

-Clint

Well, I had a similar problem, but I was installing on an already partioned drive with a swap partition. Clint is almost right, he missed the part about turning on the swap partition. I hit CTRL+ALT+F9 to get to a shell and I just did "swapon /dev/hda2" where hda2 was the swap partition. What would happen for me is that the installer was loading the root image that holds a whole kernel and YaST and it would just hang at a certain point when the whole ramdisk was filled. What is happening for you guys is that your installer fetches the root image and it has to put it somewhere, which is the ramdisk it sets up in most cases. If it is not big enough, the installer just hangs.

Hi Guys;

I installed my SuSE 9.1 Professional on my HP Desktop PC with 128K RAM and it work fine, I can run YaST.

(1) when pc power-up it should said some thing "hit F1 key to interrupt the normal boot process - this is the normal window message" , so you hit the F1 key to get into window setup, this will allow you to change the boot device from HDD to CD-ROM then save the configuration and get out, your pc should reboot from your SuSE 9.1 ISO CD.

(2) when the SuSE screen come up it will display some message

Boot from Hard DIsk
Installation
.........
..........

use the arrow key to choose INSTALLATION.

This will start YaST, when it started it will auto your pc's hardware, at this is your cursor changed to a clock.

(3) When the clock STOP, it will changes back to an arrow and Yast
will let you choose your LANGUAGE, then click the ACCEPT at the lower
right corner.

(4) Now YaST is going go check your HDD partition, it will take some time and the arrow cursor will changes to a clock again.

(5) at the end it will show you what type of partition you have on you HDD under the head line of ---- PARTITIONING.

what you should do is double check it.

(a) you may see something display in red. and something in black.
the red tells that those partition is no good.
(b) you may see everything in black,and you can just accept that arrangement by SuSE.

(c) if it is (a), you should click on "CHANGES", so that YaST will allow you to changes you partition.

(d) since your HDD has been screwed, so at the next screen you tell YaST to delete the WINDOW partition completely. and click "ACCEPT".

(e) now YaST will display a green screen to let you know it has all the informations and it know what to do with partition.

(f) From this point on YaST will run by itself till it finish the installation. for the professional it take about 50 minutes.

(g) one YaST has installed SuSE on you pc it will try to reboot from HDD, it will display a warning on your screen and when it reboot you MUST do step (1) to boot from HDD, instead of CD-ROM.

(h) There you are your SuSE is up and running, have fun, fun,fun.....funs.