On Saturday 17 March 2018 01:13:32 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Hi!
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb William Morder:
[...] 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
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
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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