On Saturday 08 September 2007 01:18, Rajko M. wrote: > On Friday 07 September 2007 11:49:51 pm Bob S wrote: > > A while back I purchased a 250 GB Sata drive, intending to install > > different os's and or versions of SuSE. I installed 10.2 on my shiny new > > drive but I stupidly partitioned 3 primaries, /, /swap, and /home, and > > used the fourth primary for the extended partition. Dumb move - Out of > > partitions with about 150GB of free space. (I run 10.0 on another small > > IDE drive) > > The extended partition is just a container for logical partitions, kind of > virtual hard disk within real hard disk. > So nothing to move, just add new partitions.
Yeah,assuming that I had made the extended partition to filll up the entire hard disk, but as I explained to Felix I cannot make the extended partion larger without deleting it. > My favorite for partitioning is command line program 'cfdisk', or recently > YaST Partitioner that makes possible to prepare disk from partitioning and > resizing to formating. > The Yast partitioner is the one complaining I am not allowed to do this. > I use cca 10 GB for installation. Don't know what cca is. > For new installations I use old home directory, but create new users. That > way changes in configuration of desktop (KDE, GNOME, other applications) > doesn't interfere with older versions. I don't follow what you are saying here. Use the old /home directory? > > The newest tool to experiment with new versions of openSUSE, Live CDs, > other distros, is virtual machine. In openSUSE you have options to use > QEMU, VirtualBox or Xen, but you can opt for VMware, Parallels etc. For > details just ask Google, there is few articles on openSUSE about virtual > machines too. Yeah, but any of these virtual solutions require disk space right? Not sure I understand the "virtual" concept. Can you point me to a faq, howto, URL? I understand the concept to run Windows stuff on Linux but why do virtual Linux on top of Linux? Doesn't make sense to me. > Thanks again for replying. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
