I have a laptop with a pretty small hard drive but it has 20gb spare space and I would be happy with a 10gb partition for a dual boot of #! but I can't partition it at all. In gparted it says theres no free space and in diskmgmt.msc it says there is only 2gb spare space for shrinking it.
Any ideas?
You could try to see what fdisk says of your drive.
run this in a terminal and post the output
[code]sudo fdisk -l[/code]
It should list all partitions and give you their size.
I'm attempting to install Fedora 15 on my laptop to dual boot with Windows 7 but for some reason I can't figure out how to partition my disk with the installation guide. When I have to choose which drive I want to install Fedora to, the guide will tell me that my hard disk already contains some partitions and give me the option to "discard my data" or "save my data". If I choose to discard, the partition manager will show the hard drive as empty. If I choose to save the data, the disk won't show up in the partition manager. How the hell do I make the installer read all the partitions on my drive so I can manually partition the drive?
BTW. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to hide the power off button in Gnome 3? Forcing people to press ALT to make it show up is just SO dumb.
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Last week I tried to install OS X on this laptop. Since then I installed Windows 7 again but the unpartitioned space I created for Fedora showed up as HFS+ (OS X filesystem) in disk utility on the Fedora live disk.
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[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/WVncm.png[/thumb]
It appears that the installer fails to read the partitions on my hard drive even though I can access the drive from the file manager.
Your disk probably has a GPT partition table - I had the same problem a year ago.
I doubt it. I am running windows 7 32 bit from that disk and as far as I know, 32 bit Windows does not support booting from a GTP disk.
What does GParted say?
What does the windows partition manager say?
I don't know about GParted but Windows sees nothing wrong with it.
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Wow. GParted reads the hard disk as unpartitioned. Wat?
I have installed Linux on this laptop several times before. Guess I will give Ubuntu a go to get a second opinion.
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It also happens in Ubuntu. What the hell?
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I just installed Fedora and wiped the hard drive but now I have a new problem. My Dvd drive won't show up whenever I use Grub but I can fix that by booting with acpi=off. That takes care my drive but now it won't recognize my monitor so everything is running at 1024x768...
How difficult would it be to dualboot Arch with Vista?
[QUOTE=Andaeeee;31846427]How difficult would it be to dualboot Arch with Vista?[/QUOTE]
Not at all. Just shrink the Vista partition and shove Arch in the empty space. Here's a tip: practice Arch in a VM (virtual machine) before you do it for real.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;31846570]Not at all. Just shrink the Vista partition and shove Arch in the empty space. Here's a tip: practice Arch in a VM (virtual machine) before you do it for real.[/QUOTE]
Oh awesome, can you shrink the Vista partition during the Arch setup or should I use a seperate program?
[QUOTE=Andaeeee;31846686]Oh awesome, can you shrink the Vista partition during the Arch setup or should I use a seperate program?[/QUOTE]
Do it in the Arch setup
Found a couple neat tricks for the console [url=http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2011/08/19/build-a-better-bash]here[/url].
I find it neat that even after knowing quite a lot of commands, you can always learn something new.
I'm trying to use ubuntu on a live CD to take some files from a computer but it won't let me gain access to those files, I know the password, but I'm not sure how to get into it?
You have to mount the partition the files are on. Then you'll have access. Normally, in ubuntu you should be able to just click the "drive" for the partition and it'll mount it for you.
Experimenting with fvwm2. It's a lot different than any other wm I've used before.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;31857790]Experimenting with fvwm2. It's a lot different than any other wm I've used before.[/QUOTE]
Post screenshots.
How can I regenerate the dpkg list? It shows packages but when I go to remove them they says package not found.
Well like everybody says, I definitely did learn more about Linux by fiddling with Arch. Mainly that I shouldn't do so because I suck huge donkey dick at everything Linux related, Ubuntu my sweet hand guiding distro, where art thou?
[QUOTE=Boris-B;31853578]You have to mount the partition the files are on. Then you'll have access. Normally, in ubuntu you should be able to just click the "drive" for the partition and it'll mount it for you.[/QUOTE]
It's definitely mounted, it just wont let me access the files since I would need to log in as the user with access, I don't know how to do that from a live CD.
[QUOTE=snuwoods;31860789]Post screenshots.[/QUOTE]
It currently looks horrible since I'm still trying to read up on making it look better, but one thing that's different is you have 4 desktops, but each has 6 screens (as seen on the bottom right). I don't even know what the top left thing does, also the menu is sort of like openbox's menu, except you can have icons and it's got a lot more functionality to it (like you can browse your system from the menu as seen above). Left clicking brings up the menu, right clicking does window operations and there's very little that can be customised with a gui, so it's all just config file editing.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/X5KzK.png[/t]
[editline]21st August 2011[/editline]
That picture was from fvwm-themes (which is fvwm, but it comes with different themes). All the themes sucked, so I went to fvwm itself (which also contains no gui to work with) and just finished modifying the left-click menu. Now, it doesn't contain a bunch of default junk I don't need (not to mention a couple things that broke it to the point where I needed to sigkill the wm). So far, I've found that editing the menu is a hell of a lot better than openbox's menu editing. I've got a screenshot of what it looks like so far. To the right is a quick launch thing and the bottom is the panel (which is extremely useless when I have something fullscreened because it hides behind the window). My favourite feature so far is the fact that you can restart the wm while still logged in, which is much better than having to log out, then back in.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/lT4Vp.png[/t]
Okay, I'm gonna have one more go at setting up Arch. I'm gonna do 4 primary partitions of root, /var, /boot and /home, does boot need to come before root or does it just need to be flagged as bootable? I'm just going to be setting up a basic desktop at first and connecting to the internet via a router, which packages would anyone reccomend installing as basic/necessary? I will do this, fuck you Arch.
[QUOTE=Andaeeee;31875247]Okay, I'm gonna have one more go at setting up Arch. I'm gonna do 4 primary partitions of root, /var, /boot and /home, does boot need to come before root or does it just need to be flagged as bootable? I'm just going to be setting up a basic desktop at first and connecting to the internet via a router, which packages would anyone reccomend installing as basic/necessary? I will do this, fuck you Arch.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't matter where /boot is and it usually doesn't need the bootable flag(but it doesn't hurt.)
[QUOTE=IpHa;31875287]It doesn't matter where /boot is and it usually doesn't need the bootable flag(but it doesn't hurt.)[/QUOTE]
Alright, thanks
My god, how the piss are you meant to set up a wireless network? I'm trying to connect to my router and stuff but it's not having any of it
[QUOTE=Andaeeee;31875398]Alright, thanks
My god, how the piss are you meant to set up a wireless network? I'm trying to connect to my router and stuff but it's not having any of it[/QUOTE]
I open my connection for a while and use netcfg--I think netcfg is included with archboot.
Oh my god I actually did it, I'm not sure how but I'm not questioning it :D
How would I go about getting it to automatically connect to my router install of manually typing in all of the commands?
[QUOTE=Andaeeee;31877769]Oh my god I actually did it, I'm not sure how but I'm not questioning it :D
How would I go about getting it to automatically connect to my router install of manually typing in all of the commands?[/QUOTE]
Look up net-auto-wireless in the arch wiki
If you're going to be connecting to multiple wireless networks, look at wicd. Otherwise set up a netcfg profile for your network and start it in rc.conf.
Postin' from Arch, only after about 10-11 hours of sobbing and fiddling. Thanks to everybody who offered advice and such, now wheres my firefox...
Also how do you do the little terminal thing that shows your OS and stuff that people do in the Post Your Linux Desktops thread?
You mean [url=https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40420]Archey[/url]?
It's in the AUR. A guide to using the AUR is [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages]here[/url], or you could install something that does that for you, such as [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt]Yaourt[/url]
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