Hi,

1st time Linux installer...have some questions/confusion on HD
partitioning:
Currently, I've Winxp Pro on master (w/no partition) & going to
install Suse on slave (w/ 4 partitions):
1. 9.7GB, Linux Native (/dev/hda1)
2. 20.0GB, HPFS/NTFS (/dev/hda5)
3. 46.8GB, HPFS/NTFS (/dev/hda6)
4. 4.9 MB, Unassigned.

Q1: During installation,I choose custom partitioning & selected slave
drive. On Slave drive, need to choose one of the 1-4 above choices and
I choose#1 (Linux Native) and i hit next but then it says "Selection is
invalid: you must start your selection w/ the highest numbered list
entry". I tried other options but none works individually; however,
when I choose the entire HD (1-4) then it goes through ... what is
going on here???

Q2: Even if i select 1-4 on slave and erase everything but along w/
that it also says the following:
. Create Swap partition 1006.0MB (on /dev/hda1)
. Create root partition 75.7 GB (/dev/had2 w/ reiser)
. Set mount point of /dev/hdb1 to Windows/C
What exactly is it doing? By any chance is it messing w/ my
Master HD?

Ans to the above Questions, an "installation guide link" would be
helpful
to.

On 11 Feb 2005 15:13:40 -0800, sherry <your_prince20@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1st time Linux installer...have some questions/confusion on HD
> partitioning:
> Currently, I've Winxp Pro on master (w/no partition) & going to

I believe XP needs a partition, but the whole drive may be 1 partition.

> install Suse on slave (w/ 4 partitions):
> 1. 9.7GB, Linux Native (/dev/hda1)
> 2. 20.0GB, HPFS/NTFS (/dev/hda5)
> 3. 46.8GB, HPFS/NTFS (/dev/hda6)
> 4. 4.9 MB, Unassigned.
>
> Q1: During installation,I choose custom partitioning & selected slave
> drive. On Slave drive, need to choose one of the 1-4 above choices and
> I choose#1 (Linux Native) and i hit next but then it says "Selection is
> invalid: you must start your selection w/ the highest numbered list
> entry". I tried other options but none works individually; however,
> when I choose the entire HD (1-4) then it goes through ... what is
> going on here???
>
> Q2: Even if i select 1-4 on slave and erase everything but along w/
> that it also says the following:
> . Create Swap partition 1006.0MB (on /dev/hda1)
> . Create root partition 75.7 GB (/dev/had2 w/ reiser)
> . Set mount point of /dev/hdb1 to Windows/C
> What exactly is it doing? By any chance is it messing w/ my
> Master HD?

On ide0, hda is master and hdb is slave. If SuSE wants to configure hdb1
(slave) as your Windows drive, something sounds reversed from what you
think it is.

Do you have standard IDE cable (where either connector works for either
drive) or cable select cable (marked to indicate which drive is which).
Are drives properly jumpered for the type of cable, master and slave, or
both cable select? If the drives are different sizes, does CMOS setup
(your system BIOS) show the drives in the order you think they are? Or
did you switch something in CMOS as to which hard drive is the boot drive?