On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know this is really old news but chalk up another save of a choked > Windows XP by booting an Ubuntu live disk and moving some files around. > > There are two points to this post: the "footprint" of the live disk > system and the dreaded NTFS resize question. > > The computer being rescued is that of a local attorney who gave me the > entire "I hate working on computers / this can't be full" diatribe as I > tried to see what was going on. He admits that he has done no > maintenance; it's a toaster to him. Diagnosis - it's a Gateway (ugh) > with 256mb RAM and a 40gb disk. Disk partitioned 6gb vfat, 34gb NTFS; > C-drive now full, D-drive almost completely empty. Attorney expected > the recurring "drive full" errors to just go away. > > Ubuntu 9.04 did boot but took quite a while what with there being only > 256mb of RAM. Point being that we've come to be spoiled by more recent > computers having GBs plural. Could the group suggest a live disk tool > to run in more modest circumstances; maybe even CLI only?? > > I _really_ don't want to reinstall XP if I can help it. The client's > email is a particular concern. Given that the incumbent NTFS partition > is real big and not being used to any extent, does anybody trust parted > to make the NTFS partition smaller? I know that parted can make the > vfat partition larger. Hmmmmm, do I back all the files off of the NTFS > partition; blow it away and expand the vfat as big as possible? > > Howard >
I'm surprised that nobody has suggested an older version of Ubuntu. I get along pretty well with Kubuntu 7.10 on most machines. I've used it on machines with 256MB and it's not as painful as you might think. My biggest peeve is that I often have to manually mount drives as root. (If that's as bad as it gets, who's to complain?) If I'm working on a Windows machine, I tend to boot from the newest Kubuntu that works with the hardware, install nfs-client and mount my remote share. Then I copy the files over the network somewhere safe before I risk blowing up the source disk. If you're really hurting for RAM, you can try DSL or Puppy Linux. Since you're ok with the command line, either of these should give you a decent GUI with the chance to get a CLI going. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" 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/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
