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dan171717
May 18th, 2007, 08:13 PM
i have had enough of ms and i hate them i would like to get rid of my win xp partion. the problem is that i need my half-life 2 game and all my data. when i installed ubuntu i layed out my hard disk stupidly so winxp is hda2 and ubuntu is hda 3 or 4 so if i make win smaller i still cant make ubuntu bigger without eraseing it grrrrrr :-x:-x
s there i a better partion thing than gparted that will let me move partions around.

Adamant1988
May 18th, 2007, 08:25 PM
i have had enough of ms and i hate them i would like to get rid of my win xp partion. the problem is that i need my half-life 2 game and all my data. when i installed ubuntu i layed out my hard disk stupidly so winxp is hda2 and ubuntu is hda 3 or 4 so if i make win smaller i still cant make ubuntu bigger without eraseing it grrrrrr :-x:-x
s there i a better partion thing than gparted that will let me move partions around.

You need to do what is best for you, if you need half-life 2 then you're better served by keeping the Windows partition available. Other data is easily movable from place to place, and even closed formats can be translated to open ones. It sounds like you should just keep the Windows partition around.

earobinson
May 18th, 2007, 08:27 PM
You need to do what is best for you, if you need half-life 2 then you're better served by keeping the Windows partition available. Other data is easily movable from place to place, and even closed formats can be translated to open ones. It sounds like you should just keep the Windows partition around.
You sir hit the nail on the head.

WalmartSniperLX
May 18th, 2007, 08:49 PM
If you really 'hate' ms then why do you want to play a game that only natively supports windows?

Do what you think is best

As far as the major question I thought gParted could resize partitions (it did for me). However I don't remember if I erased my ubuntu partition or not. Probably did (or didn't o.O) >.<. I'm sorry but thats the only tool I've used other than partition magick and I didn't use it to resize partitions. Sorry :(

-- Did you try using gParted on the Ubuntu live CD? You are not mounting the partition you are resizing right?

DR_K13
May 18th, 2007, 09:38 PM
Give Rid of ******* and play Open arena and =P~Nexius.

dan171717
May 19th, 2007, 04:35 PM
Give Rid of ******* and play Open arena and =P~Nexius. i have got tremulous for win and its great i dont have it for linux because my wireless donT work and i cant install ndiswrapper, i am using win at the mo (is ndiswrapper in synapitic) however i can do a wired connection to my livebox and that works it is lukky it is a laptop

yes, i am insane for playing hl2 and trem on
1.4ghz
768ram
64mb vram
50gb hdd!!!

but they ARE playable but i cant live without hl2 it is the best game ever. i no it runs i wine but it would be to slow on my system

dan171717
May 19th, 2007, 04:38 PM
i would like to make my ext3 partion bigger but it wont let me adjust it on the dapper cd and feity cd and on intalled dapper?? it has padlocks next to them

Death_Sargent
May 19th, 2007, 04:40 PM
ITS CALLED WINE AND CEDEGA

both can play HL2

cedega does it best.

just copy your stuff to a DVD nuke the windows partition and make a new partition that you can dedicate to something else suchas HL2 and mods or porn like some people doo not me.

reacocard
May 19th, 2007, 05:00 PM
i would like to make my ext3 partion bigger but it wont let me adjust it on the dapper cd and feity cd and on intalled dapper?? it has padlocks next to them

You can't extend ext3 (or most filesystems, for that matter) backwards, it just doesn't work. You also can't do it when installed, since you can't partition a mounted disk.

Really, you should just keep windows. You have windows-only software you need, and repartitioning would be a big hassle.

As for ndiswrapper, you could just download the packages and stuff in windows, burn it to a CD then install it in Ubuntu from the CD. All packages in the Ubuntu repos are available for download here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/

tageiru
May 19th, 2007, 06:47 PM
You can't extend ext3 (or most filesystems, for that matter) backwards, it just doesn't work. You also can't do it when installed, since you can't partition a mounted disk.

With some clever use of dd it is certainly possible.

reacocard
May 19th, 2007, 07:21 PM
With some clever use of dd it is certainly possible.

Maybe so, but the standard partitioning tools can't do it, so for the majority of users, it's impossible.

dan171717
May 21st, 2007, 06:58 PM
i will try ndiswrapper again soon icant realy use cedga or wine for hl2 because it would hog all the ram and will not play properly. as for space i will save up and by an external hdd and reinstall ubuntu on itso my home is on the external hdd