18 Mar
2018
18 Mar
'18
1:51 a.m.
On Saturday 17 March 2018 01:41:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb William Morder:
What think you of Parted Magic? How does it compare to Slacko?
I ask because I am not so familiar with Slackware (though I don't know if it
matters much for this job of resizing a partition); but I do know Parted
Magic, and have used it before now several times.
https://partedmagic.com/
It also supports various file systems:
ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, ntfs, and reiserfs
and has other useful features.
Bill
[...]
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?
UEFI is broken by design. Anyway, you can safely boot from the ISO, as it
just has the additional partition for (U)EFI to boot. The ISO wil lstill
boot on sane computers.
Nik