There are lots of "howto's" for partitioning and installing Linux on google, you should use ext3 and you probably need to make a / then a small swap partition of about 512mb / = root, how much free space do you have ?
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok. So I'm trying to get this thing loaded on an old Toshiba A65 > Satellite laptop with 512MB of ram and a 6 Gig HDD. > I used to have XP on this box until the thing refused to book being > stuck in a perpetual bluescreen loop on startup. I cannot get past the > partitions formatting in the install. The partition organizer sees the > complete drive with the XP section and the free space. I'm trying to > go with the default suggestions but it refuses to format. Sits at 5% > for about 20 mintues and then fails. What is the correct file system > to use for this thing? There are about ten different options including > Fat16, 32, NTFS etc. Which is the correct one for gOS? How do you > create a root for it. When I try to do it maually it keeps telling me > I need to set up a root partition but the partition manager does not > seem to allow this to be done. What am I doing wrong here? > > - Peter. > > > > -- Reach out and share life, care for others, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
