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I'm still learning at a steady pace how to use linux suse 10. My question is how do I get my hard drive to format using super user mode in my terminal. I want to completely erase it and start over again putting windows xp pro on first then partitioning my hard drive and re adding suse. I hate windows but my wife uses it and if you're married you understand thanks

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just pop the xp cd in and auto install, then install linux!

I've had so many people telling me about this problem, though my answer is always the above, I havn't tried it. If the xp installer can't see the ext3(or whatever) partitions and thus can't do an auto install (I doubt it) then you simply use cfdisk or any other disk partitioner from a linux installation cd and repartition into fat32 and then install...
 
Yeah that would be nice if it worked. When I pop the Windows disc in it skips everything and goes to the suse startup screen...I have a different issue now though I tried ****ing around with it to see if I could create a partition and install windows that way and I think I ****ed it up pretty good. I get this during start up and can't get any farther:

Loading Piix
ICH4: IDE Controller at PCI slot 0000 :00: 1f .1
PCI: Enabling device 0000 :00: 1f .1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000 :00: 1f .1[A] -> LINK [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdc :DMA, hdd:pio
input:AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard on isa0060/serio0
hda: FUJITSU MHT2060AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 ,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda:117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA (100)

hda: cache flushes supported
hda:
hdc: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4243N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177 ,0x376 on irq 15
Loading Processor
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
Loading Thermal
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (53 C)
Loading fan
Loading reiserfs
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x236eb3, caps: 0x904713/0x10008

hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive. 2048KB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad ON isa0060/serio1
Waiting for device /dev/root to apppear: Synaptics Touchpad, Model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x236eb3, caps:
0x904713/0x10008
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad on isa0060/serio1
..........not found -- exiting to /bin/sh
$


Then nothing...Not sure but I think this is bad. Help Me!!
 
Well the cd maybe damaged, if it's set to boot from cd it should not be able to reach suse (or anything else).
 
lol I'm not that new. I just think that the cd might be messed up because I just tried running it in my co-workers computer and even with windows 2000 NT it didn't want to run properly.
 
as i recall, suse has it's own kind of built in installer. you don't use cfdisk when you are partioning your hd while installing suse. you should still be able to boot the suse disk and use that partitioner (if that's a word) to clear out both partitions and start over.
 
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