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. > > https://partedmagic.com/ > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
