live cd gparted partition resize error problem

[Duke Togo]

title says it all really
I am following these instructions

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

but when I go to apply the changed I have made to the size of main partition I get an immediate error message
am I doing something wrong?
what could the problem be?

[zvacet]

What kind of error message do you get?

[Duke Togo]

"an error has occurred"
very vague!

[Bartender]

I wonder if your LiveCD is damaged? Did you check the download against the md5?
Did you burn the .iso slowly? In my experience, GParted will give you more information if it can't do something. That's what makes me wonder if the CD is borked.

[Duke Togo]

I`ll try burning it again

[Bartender]

Go back to the download site and get the md5. Check it against the download if you can. I can check md5's in Windows but not familiar with Linux methods.

Do you have a guinea pig hard drive you could use to test the existing CD?

[Duke Togo]

solved
I remembered I had a cd of gutsy 7.04 in a drawer somewhere, so I dug that out and used that as the live cd instead