[`eight]

I have an XP partition that I want to delete so I can use my whole hard drive to install openSUSE because I keep getting an error when I install openSUSE and that creates an partition problem forcing me to reinstall XP. I want to use the partition application in the openSUSE live CD to delete the partition. Thank you in advance.

[saikee]

(1) Click Terminal

(2) Become root by command

su

when root password demanded just press return.

(3) Check the partition layout by command

fdisk -l

The Xp partition has an ID type no. 7 for NTFS filing system.

(4) Fire up command

cfdisk /dev/sda

and use it to delete anything you don't want, click "write", confirm with "yes" before exit.

(5) recheck the partition table with

fdisk -l

(6) If you want it bomb proof, just do a reboot.

Advice - There is no necessity to nuke a Xp partition. Resize it and use the squeezed out space to install OpenSuse is a smarter move. Xp has a license and that should come in handy. 10Gb is big enough for a Suse Linux.

[`eight]

I got a -3008 system error when trying to install openSUSE to my clean hard drive, what can I do?

[saikee]

Don't know that one. Which version are you using. OpenSuse is on version 11.2 now with 2.6.29 kernel.

[`eight]

Maybe the specific problem will help. THE error window that pops up explains this:

Error

Failure occurred during following action:
Formatting partition /dev/sdb1 (2.-1 GB) with swap

System error code was -3008


/sbin/mkswap '/dev/sdb1':
/dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy

[saikee]

Got the feeling you missed out my suggested Step (6).

The information also suggests that you have more than one disk or trying to put Suse on a USB device.

In a normal Suse installation the first partition sda1 or sdb1 should always be used for /boot or /.