Help a Linux Nublet (Ubuntu)

[o_O]

Oh, just run "sudo gparted". Sometimes that might give you trouble, so you might need to do "DISPLAY=:0 sudo gparted" or even "DISPLAY=:1 sudo gparted".

Failing that, try "su -c 'gparted'" and finally "su" followed by "gparted".

[Nominus Experse]

Ah, thanks Face

EDIT: OMFG, WTF? I can't resize the drive I need to. It has this stupid lock on it or something.

[o_O]

I think the problem is that the partition you want to resize is mounted. Try doing the same thing from your Ubuntu live CD. I can't guarantee it'll work just like that, but it won't give you the same error.

[Nominus Experse]

Face, your advice was much appreciated, but I simply couldn't get it to work right - at the time. ubuntu felt the need to become hung up when scanning the mirror, and it wasn't until later that I realized I could ahve simply of disabled/disconnected my ethernet/wireless in order for ubuntu to move on and finsih its installation. So blegh on me.

However, I do want to extend a tremendous "OMFG I LOVE YOU BIG LONG TIME" to you for all you've done - in both this thread and the previous one. Even though not everything worked out perfectly, it's now up and going, and much of my Linux nubness was watered down by your watchful, helpful eye.posts.

So thanks.


And also thanks to all of the others that have bothered to post here as well.



And Vista, no matter how pretty you look or pretend to be, the fact that one of your updates smurfed my registry up so badly that I couldn't rename, restore, or remove files and folders from the Recycle Bin... I didn't like you already, and then you went and did that.

Luckily, the computer gods of the intertubes had already found a remedy for your piss-ass updates...



Oh, and ubuntu, I like you lots. If I didn't have a girlfriend, I would mount you immediately, har har har.




...someone shoot me.

<b>*sniped*</b>

[o_O]

No problem. I like a chance to be geeky.

Perhaps in the future you'll come back to Ubuntu. That's what I did when I first started using Linux, though my first distro was Red Hat (and a good reason not to stay with it ). It's definitely something you should start off doing as an endeavour towards knowledge, rather than immediate productivity.

[Nominus Experse]

I'm still dual-booting with ubuntu, and may one day move completely over to it (when I understand WINE and other unfamiliar things found in Linux)

[o_O]

Oh you are! Awesome! I clearly skipped over these words:
[q=Nominus Experse]it's now up and going[/q]I must say, I'm impressed with how you've made it work for you. You haven't asked any dumb questions, so congrats on being resourceful and not demanding to be spoonfed like so many Linux noobs.

[Citizen Bleys]

You can get XPee installed instead of Vista if you hate Vista. XP does recognize SATA drives no problem. What it doesn't grok from a direct-from-install-cd boot is AHCI. You can either put AHCI drivers for your hard disk on a USB key and use F6 during bootup to use those, or go into your BIOS and turn off AHCI. Depending on your BIOS, you may have to disable Flash Cache Module. Once XP is installed, download your drivers and you can turn AHCI back on.

Same thing happened to me with a new laptop. I needed to ditch Vista because of a bad gaming fps issue with the graphics card which I later learned could have been resolved with a simple hotfix instead of an hour-long XP install.

Also, Gentoo (or Sabayon) > Ubuntu. Ubuntu's nice, but not as nice as a portage distro.

[o_O]

Also, Gentoo (or Sabayon) > Ubuntu. Ubuntu's nice, but not as nice as a portage distro.

I second that. Gentoo's the only distro that I've stuck with and consistently had installed over the past four years. Portage is probably the single best thing in any Linux distribution. But I would definitely recommend using Ubuntu at first, if only for a month or two, so that you learn the ropes of Linux. I'd hate to tell somebody to sit there and do an installation of Gentoo as their first distro.

My first Gentoo installation was good fun. I chose to install KDE and Gnome, and in a stroke of brilliance compiled them with -j1 and -O3 C flags and every use flag. Not to mention it was a 64bit kernel in the early days of mainstream 64bit processors (which means out of date and unstable packages even from the stable source tree), so it was all for nothing anyway. It took three days.