i am stuck in the first step of suse 10.2 installation. i have an lenovo t60 with centrino duo and i am using x86-64 architecture. when it starts to prepare hard drive, there appears an error message "Failure occurred during following action: setting type of partition: /dev/hda9 to 82. system error code was -1012". can somebody help me to remedy this?

i tried both dvd and cd installation, and met the same error

Thank you

Dont know but while you wait for a reply, it may be trying to format a partition 9 on hda and perhaps you have the type wrong or maybe you have no room? hda is the windows drive C:/ usually or the first hard drive it finds.

i am sure there is enough space, i took all the default settings for partition tool that comes with suse. does suse have tool to remove the partition? thanks

Since it does look like you are trying to create a ninth partition, I might suggest you report just what else is on this computer and if you are indeed dual (triple, Quadruple or what ever you are really doing) booting between Linux and Windows or other versions of Linux.

In a dual boot setup between Windows and Linux, I setup just four partitions, all are primary. Four is the maximum number of non-hidden primary partitions you can have on one hard drive. You can create one Extended partition (which counts as a single primary partition in the four maximum total), which can contain many separate Logical partitions, but for a dual boot setup, I suggest you do not do that.

Here is my four primary partition setup:

1. Windows NTFS is first primary partition (Created by Windows)

2. FAT32 is second primary partition for common area to share files

3. Linux SWAP is third primary partition

4. Main Linux Ext3 is fourth and last primary partition.

If you have Windows, it must be installed first. If you should need to reinstall Windows, you would need to make the first partition the active partition before doing anything else. You would need to create partitions 2, 3, and 4 with Linux manually during the install of SuSE Linux 10.2. I normally put a standard boot record in the MBR and put grub totally on the Ext2 fourth partition.

Using the four partition setup has worked like a champ for me. Under SuSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 I had to use a Riser partition instead of a Ext3 partition which was not supported by SuSE Linux until 10.2 for the main partition.

It is possible to purchase a NTFS driver from Paragon Software for $40 that allows full read/right access to NTFS partitions. I have version 6 and it works with 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 version of Linux, 32 and 64 bits. I highly recommended it to anyone that would like to not have to create some middle ground partition to read and write between Linux and Windows.


Good Luck!

Thank You,

Thanks for the help. it looks like to be the problem with partition. i used fedora core 6 to remove the existing linux partition and tried installing it again, it seems to be working.

I am wondering just what final working partition setup did you end up with? I would like to know if you have the time to write it down in a forum message.

Thank You,