[NTLUG:Discuss] Dual booting Linux

[Wayne Walker]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:41:40AM -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
> I have a machine loaded with SUSE 10.0 and I want to set up dual boot 
> with CentOS. The machine has two hard drives, a 37GB (sda2) and a 250 GB 
> (sdb1). (sda1 is a swap)  I want to split the 37GB(sda2) into two 
> partitions, one for the existing SUSE and the other for CentOS.  The 
> current partitions are ext3.
> 
> I am trying to do this with Knoppix5 and qtparted.  At first it would 
> not because of the ext3 FS.
> 
> Per instructions I found on the web, I changed sda2 to ext2.  Now the 
> resize window will come up for sda2.  However, when I try to resize, I 
> get the error "An error happened during ped_file_system_open call." 
> When I looked this up on the web, all the references are to resizing a 
> Windows partition and suggest running scandisk, which usually then 
> allows qtparted to resize.
> Since this never had Windows on it, I can't run scandisk.
> 
> What do I do instead?
> 
> Ideas appreciated.

Michael,

While I have no experience, I keep seeing (on some of the Austin Linux
lists) references to qtparted being unstable.  Until I read your post,
I thought they were full of it, but maybe qtparted is running the wrong
parted commands.

I've always used gparted (the gparted Live CD usually) and had no problems.
Give it a shot.

Wayne

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