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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > > > > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read > > > > list messages on the web archive: > > > > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > > > > top-post: > > > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional > > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list > > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Please remember not to top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
