Installation: Couldnīt set root password

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 7.3

Symptom:

During the installation the following message appears:
RPM shows an error message. The password for root could not be set. You won't
be unable to login.

Cause:

Your harddisk uses an unsupported partition table.

Solution:

Please check the partition of your harddisk on wich you want to install linux. Maybe itīs the best solution to install with YaST1.

Try to set the correct type for the partition in YaST1.

   ->YaST
   -->Adjustments of installation
   --->Set target partition / filesystem
If this donīt work use ONE of the following solutions:
  1. Use the Linux fdisk. When you have to partition your harddisks, switch with ALT-F2 to a console and start fdisk. The most important fdisk commands are:
          m
              help
          p
              displays the current partition of the harddisk
          n
              create new partition
          a
              set or disable flag for bootable partition
          l
              list partitiontype
          t
              set partitiontype
          q
              quite without saving
          w
              save changes to harddisk
    
    Switch back with ALT-F1 to your installation.
  2. Start the rescue system and use Linux fdisk to create partitions (see first option)
  3. Before you boot Linux you can also use another partitioning program to partition the disk and set later the type to 'linux'. For example you can use the program pfdisktc from our CD (/dosutils). But using this program is at your own risk.
  4. For partitioning you can use fdisk from Windows or DOS but donīt set the 32bit extension.

Keywords: PASSWORD, INSTALLATION, SET, LOGIN, ROOT, YAST2

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