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Re: [LUG] Suse 8.0 !



lee quick wrote:

Andrew Rogers wrote:


Does Suse 8.0 allow you to choose which partition(s) to install on? I
would like to try it and still keep my Mandrake 7.2 installed.

As far as i can tell from a glance at the reference guide, Suse will
resize windows partitions but not linux
by default Suse will try to take over other linux partitions unless you
have free space on your drive in which case it will reside in the empty
space however there is a fairly comprehensive manual partitioning setup
so i can't say for certain that it is not possible, tell ya what monday
i will install mandrake 7.2 on a test machine at work and throw suse at
it see what happens :)

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I have got an empty partition (if I may call it that) on my harddrive.
Although I have a windows partition I do not need to resize it.

------fdisk output----
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       261   2096451    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           262      4865  36981630    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           262       521   2088418+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           522       903   3068383+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           904      1045   1140583+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8          1046      1682   5116671   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1683      2204   4192933+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda10         2205      2335   1052226   83  Linux 
----------------------

From the fdisk output above I see that I have 20GB empty space - plenty
for another Linux install. I would like to avoid installing Suse over
Mandrake.

Thanks
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http://www.rogerstech.co.uk

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