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    Suse 10.1 install probs

    I suspect this may be a hardware problem, but this is my first Linux install so I may be misreading.

    Brand new system, assembled yesterday, everything bought as components from Scan.

    The BIOS detects all components perfectly.

    Trying to install Suse 10.1 from DVD. The installer boots fine, and the the first few dialogues are no problem.

    At the 'Installation Settings' menu, the Partitioning summary is in red:
    "No automatic proposal possible. Specify mount points manually in the 'Partioner' dialogue."

    If I try Change->Partioning I'm given the options:
    - 1: 1. IDE, 232.8GB, /dev/sda, SAMSUNG-SP2504C
    - Custom partitioning (for experts)

    If I choose the first option and click Next I get the error dialogue:
    "Operation not permitted on disk /dev/sda !
    The partioning on your disk /dev/sda is either not readable by the partitioning tool parted used to change the partition table or is not supported by this tool.
    You may use the partitions on disk /dev/sda as they are or format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk here.
    You may initialise the disk partition table to a sane state in the Expert Partitioner by selecting "Expert"->"Delete Partition Table and Disk Label", but this will destroy all data on all partitions of this disk."

    If I instead select the second option, the info in the Expert Partitioner is as follows:
    /dev/sda 232.8GB; SAMSUNG-SP2504C; start 0; end 30400
    /dev/sda1 465.6GB; Linux native; start 1; end 60785

    Bearing in mind it's a 250GB HDD I really don't understand the /dev/sda1 entry.

    If I click 'Expert->Delete Partition Table and Disk Label' I get the error dialogue:
    "There are no partitionable Disks available."
    followed by a "do you really want to do this?" dialogue, which if I click 'yes' nothing happens.

    If I then click "finish" I get the error dialogue:
    "YaST2 needs a root partition to install. Assign the root mount point "/" to a partition.

    If I try 'Create', or 'Delete' or 'Resize' I get error dialogues similar to above.

    Any advice much appreciated as I'm completely lost here!

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    looks very strange thats its either assigning an IDE disk as a scsi device (sda) or seeing a scsi/sata device as an IDE device.

    what chipset is the disk controller ?

    Also keep in mind that the suse package manage is currently broke - so you may have trouble updating your system once its installed.
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by ikonia
    looks very strange thats its either assigning an IDE disk as a scsi device (sda) or seeing a scsi/sata device as an IDE device.

    what chipset is the disk controller ?

    Also keep in mind that the suse package manage is currently broke - so you may have trouble updating your system once its installed.
    The HDD is on SATA1, the DVD drive is on primary IDE. The Southbridge is Intel ICH7. I'll have another rummage in the BIOS and see if anything can be changed.

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    I fiddled around with the BIOS IDE settings but only managed to make the system not see the HDD and/or DVD drive. So set them back to defaults.

    I then tried installing XP to see what it would think of the HDD state. It too thought I had a 250GB disk with an existing 465GB partition in it. However, XP let me delete that partition.

    I've now rerun Suse 10.1 install and everything seems fine. I was able to size the partitions as I wished and the installation is churning away as I speak.

    Weird stuff, hope everything is OK. Is there any chance the HDD could have shipped containing random garbage that just happened to look like a (albeit totally erroneous) partition table?

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