On 03/01/2016 05:38 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> Are you assuming that I'd move the drive to one of my other machines, or >> is there a way to run cfdisk from the install USB stick? > Dick, > > Excellent question. I've not installed Ubuntu so my answer may not be > adequate. In Slackware, installing from the distribution DVD, partitioning > the hard drive is one of the first things to do.
Looks like cfdisk is not part of the Ubuntu install image. There was a tool that let me look at the drive, but it wouldn't let me format it, even though format is one of its options. > If the USB stick is the equivalent of a CD/DVD, can you use it to boot the > computer without immediately installing? If so, then you should find cfdisk > on the (ahem!) "live USB stick" and run it from there. Yes, the USB stick works the same way as the CD/DVD. But, as mentioned above, cfdisk wasn't there. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
