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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