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Well guys, I wish i had an error. But not even that. Every time I boot to openSUSE 10.3 live disk, and try to install (on a dual booted set-up), it hangs at 24%. when i tried doing it in the past, i had no problem. but that was a different disk. I wouldn't see any errors with the current one tho. sad .

I have it set up as:



1)the first (should be) /boot
2)the second being half the disc size (ntfs), which winblows is happily installed on
- the other 3 (blue), inside an extended partition-
3) the third (dark blue) being inside an extended partition should be /
4) the next one being linux-swap
5) the last one being /usr

BUT, all i have is that partition layout, with windows on the NTFS, and that is it. i wish i knew what was wrong

oh, and /, /usr, and /boot are ext2. should i go ext 3? (i tried ext 3 also, but it didnt work, sooo.... i dunno)

alright. i mean, damn an error message would be wonderful... as strange as that sounds. lol

ext2 for boot? there has to be better options for file systems, hell reseirfs would be better (even though it is no longer be devolved due to its creator being imprisoned for killing his wife... rolleyes ). Anyways its personal preference/what you need your computer to do, so out of curiosity what did you format your /home in xfs? xd (jk, xfs is a good file system)

The big problem with ext3's is the required fsck, currently being bitched about in openSUSE's mailing list, ext3 is great... until you hit the 60 day/boot then out of no where fsck is forced and takes for ever on big partitions if you have a 500 GB partition formatted in ext3 expect your system to take "forever" to boot (When I say "forever" I mean minutes instead of seconds, a 42 second boot time becomes 10 minutes that kind of thing). Now the fsck is important, it is what checks to see if your file systems are clean and in working order. You can't over look reseirfs is old but proven file system, and I recommend it to people who don't want to put up with ext3's fsck time. The thing I have against ext2 is that it is prone to fragmentation, ext3 solved this problem, but if /boot is a separate partition then it wouldn't matter much because as you said it will be read-only most of the time.

Funny I heard good things about xfs

One good thing about ext2 and ext3 is that you can switch back and fourth so if you have a drive that you randomly want to defragment then temporally format it to ext2 and have fun, once your done you can format it back as a ext3 with no damage to your files

I like the fact that fsck is making sure that my system is good. I use my laptop more then my desktop so I can't afford for something to happen to it like a corrupt partition. To avoid sitting there forever waiting to fsck to run, is just let it run my / on the 60 days, it takes ~30 longer to boot which is no big deal to me. I run my /home manually every so often, its been a while but I think the command is fsck.ext3 -C -p /dev/HDDlabel of course this can only be done to partitions not currently mounted which is why fsck runs before they are mounted during system boot.