Friday, 4th April
Booted Ubuntu i386 Install disc in order to use gparted - selected 'Launch Ubuntu in Safe Gfx Mode' there was a big, long scary pause (5mins?) with a black screen when starting gnome/X half way through. But booted to the gnome desktop OK. Eventually.
Partition Plan:
|42Gb Vista NTFS|120Gb Main files store FAT32|25Gb Mac HFS|10Gb Home EXT3;15Gb linux Distro 1 EXT3;15Gb Linux Distro 2 EXT3;5gb SWAP|| = primary partition bounds
; = logical partition bounds
Notes:
* GParted crashed first attempt (I had unchecked the Round To Cylinders option for the Extended partition - don't know why I did that - I left rounding on for all the other partitions *including* all the logical partitions inside the extended one!) Second time round I left rounding on on everything and it all worked.
*Had to force quit gnome when leaving ubuntu - froze to a black screen on shutdown.
- Booted Vista to make sure it was still OK with my new partitions.
- Booted Suse10.3 x64 install Dvd: black screened a couple of times, but eventually ran the installer
- The installed system would crash early in the startup sequence - (in hindsight, I probably just needed to add noapic to the grub boot paramiters)
- launched Failsafe mode - set up users, etc. using terminal version of YaST
- logged in as root and ran sax2
- added grub boot options noapic nolapic to boot - success!
- Things to fix:
touchpad scroll zones
touchscreen
wacom stylus
wifi connection
gfx card support
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