Re: [opensuse] Formatting error (-1012) when installing Opensuse 10.2

2007-08-02 Thread Philip Bradley
Thanks for your suggestion. I actually got it working so below is a summary of what I did for the benefit of anyone else having the same problem: 1. Deleted any of the partitions created for/by linux (leaving the Windows main partition, the recovery partition and the dell utility partition)

[opensuse] Formatting error (-1012) when installing Opensuse 10.2

2007-07-30 Thread Philip Bradley
Hi all, I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA  drive (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast tries to format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is reported: Failure occurred during the following action: Setting type of

Re: [opensuse] Formatting error (-1012) when installing Opensuse 10.2

2007-07-30 Thread Kenneth Aar
Philip Bradley wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install Opesuse 10.2 on a Dell D620 with an 80GB SATA drive (with 2GB RAM). The installation fails at the point where Yast tries to format the disk space allocated to it. The following error is reported: Failure occurred during the following