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GTBlackwell 05-07-2005 12:18 AM

Weird SuSE 9.2 Pro installation error
 
The following has now happened twice on two seperate computers:

While setting up a dual-boot system with SuSE 9.2 and Win98 sharing one 40GB hard drive. During installation, I resize the windows partition to 19 GB (which should leave it with at least 15 GB free), set up a primary linux partition with 19GB and a swap partition using what's left over. (Just as a reference, the blocks end up looking something like:
Windows: Blocks 0 - approx. 35000
Linux: Blocks 35001 - 77000
Swap: Blocks 77001-approx 79000 (end of drive)
...so I know I'm setting up Yast to partition/resize everything correctly.)

When it starts the resize/formatting process, Yast announces that it is attempting to resize the Windows partition to 19 MB ! Of course, it can't resize space that's already used, so I'm left with a massive Linux part. and a windows drive with maybe 8MB free.

In case it matters, on my 'I-use-this-one-everyday' computer, I have only SuSE 9.2, installed from the commercial DVDs. On these two systems (which lack DVD-ROMs) I'm using the commercial CDs.

Has anyone else had anything like this happen?

P.S.: On the second system I did this, I made sure to check that I was, in fact, setting the partition sizes to what I wanted, but the same thing happened anyway.


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