You don't understand.... This was just an evaluation that is supposed to, for the most part, run completely off the CD with the exception being that it puts a small sawp and small home directory on your C drive as files mounted through the loopback device. What happen in reality was that it did a little more writing to the disk than I wanted as in it scrambled the actual partition information so the whole drive itself shows up as a 4 gig. I could only wish that it had only resized the drive. When I booted off a bootable dos floppy what I was greeted with was a whole bunch of scrambled files names with 3 suse files perfectly on the drive... all other files where scrambled. I ran norton disk doctor on the drive and I was only able to recover about 100 files total. Considering that 18gig of it was full... thats fairly lame. Brian Cluff ----- Original Message ----- > Brian, SuSE will try and use all the remaining space on that drive that > Windows wasn't using. Windows 2000 will also do the same thing. It's > normal. You can remove SuSE and expand the partition back out. > > -- > Richard L. Proctor > Krystal Computer Services > PC Upgrades & Repairs > 480-699-3098 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian Cluff > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:23 PM > Subject: Caution, SuSE Linux Live Eval loading > > > > For all of those that got one of those SuSA live evals from with the plug > > meeting or the stamtisch. Be sure you run it on a machine that you either > > have backed up, or don't care about. > > I just recently threw it in my machine at work to see how good of an > > install it was so that I could give it to my boss with the recommendation > > that he play around with it and see how he likes it. > > Well, I go it on and it all went beautifully. It's a very nice live eval > > indeed and was all set to march it over to him with the highest > > reccomendation, but after shutting it down and trying to reboot this > > windows machine back into windows I found that it had rewritten the format > > on my 20 gig drive to a 4 gig drive and thus causing to be become totally > > scrambled. Luckily I think I have a recent backup, but this would have > > sucked if I had handed it over to my boss and had it scramble his drive. > > I would probably never be able to get this place converted over to linux. > > > > So anyway, watch out when booting those things. I'm betting they work > > better on slightly oler machines that only have a max of 4 gig in them, > > but I wouldn't bet my drive on it hehehe > > > > Brian Cluff > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss