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Just installed SUSE 10.0
mobrien_12:
The naitive partition type for SUSE is ReiserFS.
I was using KDE but tried GNOME and Windowmaker and blackbox and FVWM before giving up on using my old /home partition.
The VFAT (fat32 with Long file names) was standard as a module, and the partition was available, readable, and (like for instance with OGG123, usable)... it's just that the GUI programs couldn't handle the files being on another partition and would crash (maybe they could handle another reiser partition, but I had only the root as reiser since I planned to reuse my old /home and windows partitions).
Very very bizzare.
Maybe another distro is in order. Of course, I could probably use their tech support since I bought this retail, but I've only tried retail Linux tech support once (Caldera OpenLinux 2.2), but because it was a hard question (not "how do I make my sound card work" or something like that), they told me they wouldn't support it, so I ended up going into the source code and finding, and documenting, the solution myself.
Lead Head:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---The naitive partition type for SUSE is ReiserFS.
I was using KDE but tried GNOME and Windowmaker and blackbox and FVWM before giving up on using my old /home partition.
The VFAT (fat32 with Long file names) was standard as a module, and the partition was available, readable, and (like for instance with OGG123, usable)... it's just that the GUI programs couldn't handle the files being on another partition and would crash (maybe they could handle another reiser partition, but I had only the root as reiser since I planned to reuse my old /home and windows partitions).
Very very bizzare.
Maybe another distro is in order. Of course, I could probably use their tech support since I bought this retail, but I've only tried retail Linux tech support once (Caldera OpenLinux 2.2), but because it was a hard question (not "how do I make my sound card work" or something like that), they told me they wouldn't support it, so I ended up going into the source code and finding, and documenting, the solution myself.
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oh..I used OpenSuse 10.1
mobrien_12:
Well, I know what the problem was now.
I tried to boot into windows today, then my old Linux install.
It's not that SUSE can't read data on other partitions reliably.
It's that the install completely #$%^ed my hard drive. Every partition except for the ones formatted by SUSE (the root partition and the swap partition) was WRECKED.
The data is still there... sorta. But You can't boot to any other partition, if you boot with the Win98 boot floppy it says Drive C is corrupt, RedHat won't boot.
Wow. Good thing I keep backups.
worker201:
Was that a hardware problem or a software problem? Meaning, was it a bad hard drive or a bad installer somewhere?
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---Was that a hardware problem or a software problem? Meaning, was it a bad hard drive or a bad installer somewhere?
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Hard drive never gave me any problems before.
I had run several diagnostics on it before installing.
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