Why so difficult, just let the installer do the work, and choose "assisted, use whole disk", and the installer will remove your XP partition, and make the two new partitions that gOS needs. gOS normally uses one "ext3" partition for Linux, and one "swap" partition for the virtual memory swapfile.
NTFS and FAT formats are windows formats, not internally used by gOS (except when needed to access external drives and memory sticks etc formatted with these standards). If you cannot install using the default assisted installer, one reason may be that gOS sees a "corrupted" NTFS Windows XP partition, and hangs on that. The best solution is to use gParted (the partition editor on the Live CD) to remove all partitions on the Hard-disk, and then to just run the installer on the empty hard-disk. On 17 nov, 14:42, peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About 3 Gig's. But I intend to wipe out the XP partition and use the whole 6 > Gig's for gOS. > > - Peter. > > --- On Sun, 11/16/08, wirechief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: wirechief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Drive partitioning in gOS > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 6:20 PM > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
