Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-05 Thread Nick Black
Ian McInerney left as an exercise for the reader: > There are a couple of advantages to gparted (that I haven't found analogous > operations for in gnome-disks): (apologies if this mail is received twice; i attached an image first, and it was blocked by the listserv) A few years ago, I wrote a

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Shaw wrote: > In troubleshooting this and working around it I'm using the F32 live > installer, but I keep having to install gparted. The installer would be > much more useful with it preinstalled. The KDE Live image includes the KDE Partition Manager (KPM). Kevin Kofler

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Marius Schwarz
Am 04.06.20 um 18:52 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: > > I don't think we actually have the technical capability to ship it in > live media without also installing it by default on the installed system. > That won't be the worst consequence ;) best regards, Marius

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Marius Schwarz
Am 04.06.20 um 17:47 schrieb Felipe Borges: > > We already ship Disks (gnome-disks) in the live image. Doesn't it > suffice for the type of task you need to perform? > > :D Gparted does all the needed steps you would need to do manual with gnome-disks . It way better for this kind of work.

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Erich Eickmeyer
On 6/4/20 11:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 11:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 6/4/20 9:52 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >>> I don't think we actually have the technical capability to ship it >>> in >>> live media without also installing it by default on the installed

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:53 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > I don't think we actually have the technical capability to ship it in > live media without also installing it by default on the installed > system. > > It currently has to run as root, which is not acceptable, so would > require some

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 11:32 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/4/20 9:52 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > > I don't think we actually have the technical capability to ship it > > in > > live media without also installing it by default on the installed > > system. > > > > It currently has to run

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/20 9:52 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I don't think we actually have the technical capability to ship it in live media without also installing it by default on the installed system. It currently has to run as root, which is not acceptable, so would require some work to split out

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Thursday, 04 June 2020 at 17:00, Richard Shaw wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has some sort of > non-standard UEFI install. It refuses to boot anything but Windows from the > ESP partition even though I can see it using efibootmgr. Have you tried renaming your

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
I don't think we actually have the technical capability to ship it in live media without also installing it by default on the installed system. It currently has to run as root, which is not acceptable, so would require some work to split out privileged operations into a separate backend

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 17:12 +0100, Ian McInerney wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:48 PM Felipe Borges > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:21 PM Ian McInerney < > > ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Shaw > > wrote: > > > > >> > > >

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 04.06.2020 17:00, Richard Shaw wrote: > In troubleshooting this and working around it I'm using the F32 live > installer, but I keep having to install gparted. The installer would be > much more useful with it preinstalled. XFCE Live ships both GParted and Gnome Disks. You can use it. --

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Lyes Saadi
YES! PLEASE! I recently had an issue where gparted would have saved me *hours* of head banging! No one should have to use `fdisk`... *No one...* *NO ONE...* Sincerely, Lyes Saadi. Le 04/06/2020 à 16:00, Richard Shaw a écrit : I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has some

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Ian McInerney
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:48 PM Felipe Borges wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:21 PM Ian McInerney > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Shaw > wrote: > >> > >> I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has some sort > of non-standard UEFI install. It refuses

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:49 AM Felipe Borges wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:21 PM Ian McInerney > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Shaw > wrote: > >> > >> I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has some sort > of non-standard UEFI install. It refuses

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Felipe Borges
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:21 PM Ian McInerney wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has some sort of >> non-standard UEFI install. It refuses to boot anything but Windows from the >> ESP partition even though

Re: Proposal: Install gparted to Live installers

2020-06-04 Thread Ian McInerney
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora 32 to a MS Surface GO which has some sort of > non-standard UEFI install. It refuses to boot anything but Windows from the > ESP partition even though I can see it using efibootmgr. > > In troubleshooting this and