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| 211036 | 2004-01-29 19:41:00 | I have just removed everything off a hard disk and re-formatted all 40 megs to NTFS. Question: Can I install SuSe 8.0 on to this format? If the answer is "No" , what do I have to do next. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 211037 | 2004-01-29 19:50:00 | Yes, you can resize the partition and it'll be fine. Just make sure you Defrag and Scandisk entirely before you continue and install Linux. This is HDD Partitioning, please dont miss that out.... Its a very important part and things go wrong if you skip it... Speaking from experience here :p Im pretty sure you can use the SuSE Installer to do this. If not, then boot off a Knoppix Disc and use partmagic :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211038 | 2004-01-29 19:56:00 | Sorry Chill, I don't quite understand. I don't want to partition. I just want to install suse and let it have all the disk. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 211039 | 2004-01-29 20:02:00 | Im not sure if SuSE supports this, however there is others that do. There are Linux's out there that'll let you install onto a "Loopback Filesystem". Its basically where it makes a file on your Windows Partition somewhere called something to the effect of "Linux". This will appear as a single file, but all your Linux contents will be in that one file. You've got Ntfs which is good (You can have a linux install bigger than 4 gigs, as 4 gigs is the largest a file can be for Fat32), but its also bad because you Must have a distro that's using the 2.6 kernel (Not many do yet), or supports NTFS writing with the 2.4 kernel. I'll have a quick look for a Distro I saw a while back which should let you do that, but I dont think that SuSE will sorry. Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211040 | 2004-01-29 20:04:00 | You can't install linux on NTFS, but the SUSE installer will include an option to replace the NTFS partition with linux partition(s). | bmason (508) | ||
| 211041 | 2004-01-29 20:06:00 | Actually, you can: topologi-linux.sourceforge.net Its Slackware based which is cool, slackware is a speedy little Distro. Down side is that because its a loopback file-system, you're never going to reach Linux's speed potentials!! Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211042 | 2004-01-29 20:15:00 | Thanks. If the SUSE installer will change the NTFS partition, to whatever, that's all I need. I think ?? Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 211043 | 2004-01-29 20:20:00 | Here's another URL for thos who are wanting to try Linux, but not partition their PC: http://www.colinux.org/ If anybody tries it, could you please let me know how you get on. I would download it and try it, but I dont have a Doze PC in the house... Although I could try running it under Wine :D I think its similar to Cygwin? Jack> If you install SuSE, it'll either re-partition it so you can keep some of the NTFS drive, or it'll fully take over if you allow it :-) Linux will be using Ext3 and SWAP partition types. Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 211044 | 2004-01-29 20:27:00 | Thanks again Chill, I realy don't understand what you say, but my intention is to let LINUX have the whole computer. So linux will modify my ntfs partition to suit and will then install? Agree? Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 211045 | 2004-01-29 20:31:00 | Correct :-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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