Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-02 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: William Case billli...@rogers.com | Aldo Foot wrote: | I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] | I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out | with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems. | This looks like the solution I

Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread William Case
Hi; I am not looking for advice on how to partition or re-partition a hard drive. I have done it many times. I am looking for suggestions and/or recommendations on how to most efficiently and effectively use gParted. I like its gui interface and its apparent stability. It seems I can do one

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Scott Beamer
William Case Wrote: Hi; I am not looking for advice on how to partition or re-partition a hard drive. I have done it many times. I am looking for suggestions and/or recommendations on how to most efficiently and effectively use gParted. I like its gui interface and its apparent

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread William Case
Hi; On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:05 +, Scott Beamer wrote: William Case Wrote: Hi; I am not looking for advice on how to partition or re-partition a hard drive. I have done it many times. I am looking for suggestions and/or recommendations on how to most efficiently and

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:05 +, Scott Beamer wrote: William Case Wrote: Hi; I am not looking for advice on how to partition or re-partition a hard drive. I have done it many times. I am looking for suggestions and/or recommendations on how to most efficiently and effectively

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:37 AM, William Casebillli...@rogers.com wrote: Hi; I am not looking for advice on how to partition or re-partition a hard drive.  I have done it many times. I am looking for suggestions and/or recommendations on how to most efficiently and effectively use gParted.  

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Antonio Olivares
Your best bet is to run it from a LiveCD.  I can't recall if it's on the Fedora live CD or not. If so, you're in business. It's not, at least not on the 32-bit version. I had to run the Live CD (from a pendrive) and do yum install gparted to repartition my netbook. poc -- It

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Antonio Olivares
I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems. [1] http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page Excellent! These

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
Aldo Foot wrote: I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems. I usually use clonezilla-sysresccd because I need to clone partitions pretty

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread William Case
Hi; On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 18:55 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems. I usually

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:47 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 18:55 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out with a text CLI,

Re: Advice from users of gParted ??

2009-07-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:47 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 18:55 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: Aldo Foot wrote: I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD