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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:17:15 +1000

Re: SuSE 6.2

At 08:13 17/02/00 +1030, Matthew Geddes wrote:
>Brian Astill wrote:
>
>> At 09:24 15/02/00 +1030, you wrote:
>> >  Does anyone know a way of getting SuSE 6.2 to *please* not kill my other
>> >partitions? My desired partitioning is:
>> >           Solaris 2.4
>> >           MS-DOS + NW server boot files
>> >           Netware 4.1
>> >           Linux swap
>> >           SuSE 6.2
>> >SuSE
>> >insists on creating partitions for me. The problem is that they are the
>> >partitions that I already have data on.
>> >this really pisses me off ;-)
>>
>> Veerry strange.  Have you tried leaving your potential hda5&6 simply as
>> blank space, then introducing the SuSE install CD?  SFAIK SuSE looks for
>> unpartitioned blank space as its first preference.
>
>Yes, but because it is on an extended partition it fails to recognise it.
>
Could you try making Solaris, MS and Netware partitions each Primary
partitions, and leave the remainder of the drive free space for SuSE?

Brian

Brian Astill,  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education

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