On Saturday 17 March 2018 18:51:59 William Morder wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2018 01:41:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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?
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
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.
It also supports various file systems: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, ntfs, and reiserfs and has other useful features.
Bill
Oh, never mind! I see that it costs $49 ... and I seem to recall that it used to be free software. This was some years ago, so maybe I am thinking of a free version of something like it; I don't think it was a bootleg, as I always tried to avoid that stuff.
Bill
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