Specifications

Chapter 1. General usage 11
Freespace Before: 0.0 MB
New Size : 95393.0 MB <--change to 30000
Free Space After:
<Apply> <Yes>
This changed the Windows partition to 30 GB, which would still provide over 18 GB of free
space within the partition. The operation took several minutes and we received error
messages during the operation:
Error #1627 Upcase table incorrect, File 10 (128)
<OK> Continue
Error #1627 Upcase table incorrect, File 10 (128)
<OK> Continue
The errors did not appear to create a problem. When the operation finished, Partition Magic
displayed the following:
Partition Type Size MB Used MB Unused MB Status Pri/Log
*:WindowsXP NTFS 29,996.3 11625.8 18,370.5 Active Primary
*: unalloc 65,397.0 0.0 0.0 None Primary
We then rebooted Windows (twice) to allow it to update tables and verify that it still worked. At
this point we had 65 GB available for Linux, the 1090, and System z emulated volumes.
We installed openSUSE Linux, and we selected Partitioning and Base Partition on this
Proposal during installation. We created a partition table as follows:
Device Size F Type Mount ....................
/dev/sda 93.1GB HTS....
/dev/sda1 29.3GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C
/dev/sda2 63.8GB Extended
/dev/sda5 2.0GB F Swap
/dev/sda6 8.0GB F ext3 /
/dev/sda7 53.8GB F ext3 /z
Take care, of course, not to delete or format the Windows partition while creating your own
Linux partitions. The three partitions we created (sda5, sda6, sda7) correspond to the
partition descriptions in Volume 2.
We then continued the Linux installation in the usual manner. After that was completed, we
rebooted the ThinkPad. During startup, grub displayed the following menu:
SUSE Linux (default selection)
Windows
Failsafe -- SUSE Linux
If no selection is made within 8 seconds, Linux was booted by default. You can change this
(running under Linux) as follows:
# gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2......
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
...
### Don’t change this comment...
title SUSE Linux ...
root ...
kernel ...