17 Mar
2018
17 Mar
'18
8:30 a.m.
On Saturday 17 March 2018 01:13:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi!
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb William Morder:
I have discovered that some computers won't boot from USB sticks. And yes, I
am running i386, so 32 bit it is. However, I don't have UEFI, because I built
this thing out of parts.
A friend of mine turned a laptop into a brick by trying to install a Linux
system on a machine that had UEFI enabled. This sounds like the opposite
problem: the iso image is made for UEFI machines, but I don't want that (at
least, not yet). Will that be a problem?
Bill
[...]
Also - one of those bugs - I cannot start gparted (or any gnome
application) as root. I've tried tdesu and gksu. The Trinity sudo works
okay for TDE programs, but the gksu always rejects my password, even
though I am sure of the password. This is also a problem when I do a new
installation. I can only get admin privileges by sudo or su when I am in
a shell; and except for the shell, it's not until after I've installed
the Trinity packages (especially the Trinity sudo packages) that I can do
anything as root. It would be nice to be able to resize the root
partition (assuming I won't lose information in the home partition ...
but I've got a fresh backup, anyway). Otherwise, I will proceed with a
system reinstallation at some point, and resize partitions then.
Ok, this won't work that way :-)
Please download slacko from here http://slacko.eezy.xyz/download.php - best
use the 32 bit iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-6.3.2/32/slacko-6.3.2-uef
i.iso
either burn the iso or make "dd if=slacko-6.3.2-uefi.iso
of=/dev/<the-usb-stick>" Boot from the iso, open a terminal, start gparted.
Now you can resize partitions. BTW, slacko is slackware based :-)
When you have problems booting from USB, then please post what hardware you
are using. When you use Lenovo/IBM, you migh have to press F12 to select
the boot media. Also not all usb sticks boot on all computers.
Nik
> Thanks for any guidance here. I can generally do
partitioning and system
> installations in my sleep (and often have done), but this problem with
> sudo (mentioned by myself and others elsewhere) is a pain in the
> *ma-hony*.
>
> Bill
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