Hi,

I've been trying to get Linux installed back on my laptop with no success. I've finally decided on SuSE, since it can be installed over the network (my CD-ROM drive was what caused the other attempts to fail).

I load up YaST, and select the packages (GNOME desktop and office tools). The partitions, as suggested by YaST, are the following:

I accept the proposed partition scheme and begin the install. It formats the partitions, and gives me the following warning message:

I've tried safe mode for the install and pretty much any way I've thought possible, with no success.

I've also tried changing around my parition setup, but with no success. If I select "Continue", install proceeds but doesn't succeed. The drive runs out of space. After the install fails due to lack of space, I cannot restart the install process. YaST complains about no space being present in order for it to write its config files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I left out a detail that you need, please let me know. I'm quite new here, so I'm still getting used to things.

How big is the hard disk? According to the system messages YaST thinks it is 28 GB. That's plenty of space for SuSE 9.2. On the other hand if the hard disk is less than 28 GB then YaST is clearly having trouble using the disk.

You could try putting the root partion on hda1, make it 12 GB, and follow that with the swap partition. Keep the swap partition 512 MB. That will use half of the disk space. Maybe that will get you past the initial installation.

The HDD is indeed 30 GB large, so about 28 formatted. Currently I have DSL installed, which is the only distro I've gotten to install properly so far. I'll give your suggestion a go later on.

Thanks!

When you are selecting packages to install during the system install don't put too many packages in the list. YaST for SuSE 9.x will choke if you select a lot of packages. The default package list is ok. You can always install things later.