No the defragmenter is a tool on the Windows system, you use it to compact the information on the NTFS system, and to remove errors in the NTFS filing system.
On 18 nov, 05:47, peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. Tried all that. The partition editor wont do anything to the disc. > Can't delete, resize, rename, re-nothing the exiting partition. I'm becoming > more and more convinced that the drive is bad. I have a new replacement on > order. That should be here in a couple of days. If I still have no luck with > that one then I don't know. By the way in the "Clean Install" thread mention > was made of a defragmenter. Is that on the gOS disc as well? > > - Peter. > > --- On Mon, 11/17/08, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Drive partitioning in gOS > To: "gOS Linux" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 7:49 AM > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
