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So, trying to install on a clean HD, 10.00GB drive. Just of Linux mind you I have run through the install, but when I restart, I get Operation systme not found evertime./

There were issues of "partitions" which I zeroed out, or at least deleted everything but what I thought was a root partition.

Any suggestions about how to do this, from a blank hard drive? So, sticking drive in the T41, I cannot get to fdisk ,since that is NTFS, no?

What would the steps be, to create a base partition, and then install, so the system will see it?

thanks

Anyone have any tips for this?
thanks

Hello

Im no expert but:

You might like to have alook at:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

It has enough tools to determine if your hard drive is ok, by running tests, depending on the make of your hard drive. It runs directly from the cd . . . . no need to install any software. Addtionally you can run several programs that will wipe your drive (Zero out) etc.


Such as Autoclave, and Darik's boot and Nuke. They are slow, but work rather well !

Once you have determined if your drive is ok, and has no faults, you can proceed with Suse. I havent tried Suse, but it shold have its own disk partitioning software, where you can create, root, home and a swap partition.

Make sure you install Lilo or grub as your bootloader, and you should be away.

I hope some of these hints may help you?

Let me know how you get on . . .

Provided you have no BIOS issues with the size of your hard drive (and there are forums posts on these points), the starting point would be to ensure your hard drive is partitioned to receive SUSE.

You have indicated that you are not planning to install any other operating system, so you can partition to your hearts content.

If you are booting from a CD or bootable diskette (and not loading the SUSE files from an existing hard drive partition), it is likely that SUSE will have a partitioning programme built in. You should follow the instructions and remember that in many PCs. the /boot partition has to be in the first 512Mb of disk space. If you are using a partion manager such as FIPS, put the /boot partition at the start of the free space. Then create partitions for /swap (usually double the size of your inbuilt RAM, but n/e 2Gb) and / (root).
The install should put LILO or GRUB in to load Linux when you are finished the install. If the Boot Loader isn't loaded properly from the /boot partition, you may have problems.
You should always make a spare boot diskette at the end of the process in case of boot problems. I am not sure how SUSE does this. Red Hat provides this feature. I use a floppy to boot Linux because I have a complex hard drive topography that I can't change while still retaining Win98. Works Ok though.