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| kevkid 2001-12-25, 8:31 pm |
| Happy Holidays everyone,
I'm trying to install SuSe on a windows 2000 pro machine that has NTFS on the whole partition. The hard drive is 4 GB.....with windows using the entire partition. Only about 1.60 GB is being used. Is it possible to install SuSe with out partition magic????
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This might be a stupid question...so...please forgive me...but ..I'm trying to move away from M$.
Thanks everyone....
Kevkid | |
| sibley 2001-12-26, 8:12 am |
| Yes, SuSE has a partition manager caleld YAST2 (Yet Another Setup Tool 2) that can manage partitions. Your setup whould work as I think you need like 2 gigs for a complete install. I think YAST2 only will allow you to have one other OS on your machine but for your porpoises (or dolphins, as they case may be) it should work. | |
| kevkid 2001-12-26, 10:20 pm |
| Thanks Sibley,
I tryed it with YaSt2 but it does not see the NTFS. It sees the whole partition as free. If I try to do an install..it will wipe out W2K. I just bought Partition magic today...so.....I will make a small partition as FAT. It should work then...I hope.
Any other ideas guys????
Kevkid | |
| ccieToBe 2001-12-27, 7:30 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by kevkid
Thanks Sibley,
I tryed it with YaSt2 but it does not see the NTFS. It sees the whole partition as free. If I try to do an install..it will wipe out W2K. I just bought Partition magic today...so.....I will make a small partition as FAT. It should work then...I hope.
Any other ideas guys????
Kevkid
Make sure your version of partition magic can resize NTFS 5.0 partitions. I have an old copy that thinks it can resize them but ends up destroying the contents of any ntfs partition that it tries to resize. | |
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| I recommend to install into different HD (physically), U never know what happen..
If u only had one PC  | |
| kevkid 2001-12-29, 12:33 am |
| Thanks for your replys,
I bought Partition Magic 7.0. Worked like a charm. Handled resizing, merging, and reformatting with no glitches. Installed SuSe7.3. The graphics were a XXXXX to get correct. I have a unsupported graphics card....so....I used the vga=788 vesa frame buffer. That worked great. Now I have SuSe up and running....BUT....there has to be a "BUT". Linux does not support the modem card I have. On the support site ..it says that (my modem) is a peice of crap. (HAHAHAHA). Time to get an external modem.
I'm only at the baby stage of learning this fantastic OS....and its been a trip so far.
I cant wait to see what else it has instore for me.
Kevkid | |
| ccieToBe 2001-12-30, 3:48 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by kevkid
Thanks for your replys,
I bought Partition Magic 7.0. Worked like a charm. Handled resizing, merging, and reformatting with no glitches. Installed SuSe7.3. The graphics were a XXXXX to get correct. I have a unsupported graphics card....so....I used the vga=788 vesa frame buffer. That worked great. Now I have SuSe up and running....BUT....there has to be a "BUT". Linux does not support the modem card I have. On the support site ..it says that (my modem) is a peice of crap. (HAHAHAHA). Time to get an external modem.
I'm only at the baby stage of learning this fantastic OS....and its been a trip so far.
I cant wait to see what else it has instore for me.
Kevkid
Sounds like you have a winmodem. You can get most of them to work in Linux but IMO it's not worth the time it takes to get them working. Hardware based modems perform better anyway. |
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