Partitions

[johnmd]

OK now I know what your talking about. My computer is defaulted to the cd rom and then the hard drive.
That's not hard to change.

Greenwood is about an 1 1/2 hours from here. Been there many times.

John

[johnmd]

OK here is what i did and what the results were.
First I burnt a copy of GParted and booted on it. It booted fine but when it came to run the GUI things didn't go so fine. I got a lot of very fast vertical wide lines. I tried every thing I knew and ended up pulling the plug and removing the battery to shut it down.
I tried it a couple of more times with the same results.
The made another copy and got the same results.
So I thought I would try the live Ubuntu on the cd.
That booted fine but I couldn't find where to run GParted from it.
I looked in all the files and couldn't find any thing except a file
gparted-pkexec and that wouldn't run the program and that was in usr/bin.
Any ideas?

Thanks
John

A point of interest. My web sites are on a dedicated server not far from you.
They were in Chicago but were moved closer to the company that hosts them in Madison.

[johnmd]

I just got it working. I had to use a fail safe mode and the min of settings.
Now to test it.

john

[johnmd]

I just booted the system and Ubuntu ran and the two other partitions showed in the files.
Now to learn about that boot repair program.

John

[Bartender]

Do you mean you got the GParted LiveCD to work? I've spun GParted CD's on dozens of machines and only had to drop back to the video fail-safe mode once. Maybe twice.

Don't buy lottery tickets this week!

Last time I took a screenshot from GParted it was kind of a pain. It's easier to take a screenshot from the Ubuntu CD if you boot up and go into "Try Ubuntu". Screenshot should be under accessories and you can save to a thumb drive.

It might be helpful to attach a screenshot so we can see how many, and what kind, of partitions you have now.

[newb85]

I was going to install another version of Linux. Maybe Wine or Fedora.

Don't know if you've figured this out already, but Wine is not a Linux distro like Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora. It is an abstraction layer that has to be installed on an existing distribution.

[johnmd]

I meant to say Mint.
Now to try the screen shot

[johnmd]

Update. Here is what I ended up doing.
Fist off before I could install Fedora on the partition that was set up as ext 2 I had to change it to an ext 4 which was no problem.
I installed Fedora and it did as before and took control of the boot sector and only had allowed me to boot Fedora.
I had a live boot repair disk ready just in case but I decided that I would load Mint. I did this and it set up all three distributions on the boot sector.
I can also see the files on the other to from each other and so far I have only checked Ubuntu but it will view the files on my Windows computer. I tried it on Fedora and it will have to be set up. Ubuntu did this automatically.
This may have not been the accepted way to do this but all is well that ended well.
Now i can test each system when ever I want to. The Live CD was OK but it was slow and didn't allow you to do all the things I wanted to try/
Thanks everyone for your help.

John