William Morder composed on 2018-03-19 21:18 (UTC-0700): > Yes, running Debian Jessie 8.10 or whatever is the most recent update. I was > wondering about how to format root. I am used to ext2 for root partition from > older Ubuntu versions, but I see everybody using ext3 or ext4 now, so this > might be part of the problem. Formatting / is usually a default option in any Linux installer, but they tend to format the same type, which in your case is not desirable. Just be sure to specify / get formatted and /home not. > It is 32-bit because I installed a new motherboard, and that is all that was > available for cheap. I've always run 64-bit before. > Any quick commands to find out CPU, chipset and gfxchip? And yes, some of it > is old (I did say it's a Frankenstein), but my motherboard is pretty new. lspci or inxi -v4 should do well enough. cat /proc/cpuinfo can be misleading to the uninitiated, but does report whether limited to 32-bit or not. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
