physical formating, partitioning, logical formatting???!!!

Wyoming · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:37 am

Slackware's worked great for me. I don't go for Fedora, though.
One distro can't be for everyone. God, but I sound like a perscription commercial -.-
There are some nice distro choosers, they don't work perfectly, but they're pretty good, here's the one I used: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

i dont know, i might use puppy linux, since bob says its fast...

bobwrits · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:32 pm

Yep. And it has GPart on it.

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

...

that works

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

btw i got puppy on a stick now, just waiting for burncdcc to close the cd

bobwrits · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:11 pm

Yes it does.

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

hey, now what, i got it on the small hard drive

how do i put it on the other one, gpart cant find it D:>

bobwrits · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:55 pm

It's hdb.

Seraphim · **Joined:** Fri May 02, 2008 6:54 am **Posts:** 76

or if its SATA drive then it will be sda or sdb

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

its sata, so what are the steps to finding it, it only shows ntfs

Seraphim · **Joined:** Fri May 02, 2008 6:54 am **Posts:** 76

wanna post some screen shots?

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

umm in a few...
also i cant get puppy to stay on my hard drive, it starts windows everytime >.<

bobwrits · **Posted:** Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:22 am

You have to have a boot loader that has puppy as an option(grub is commonly used, puppy has it's installer). If it's saying that the file system is NTFS that is a windows file system. You have to make room for the new fileesystem by either deleting the NTFS file system(this method will get rid of any data in the partition) or shrinking it.

Wyoming · **Posted:** Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:30 pm

My problem with puppy is it's hard to install programs. Nothing comes as dotpup or pet. As far as I can find out, it doesn't support any other format, and I can't use source format, because I can't get gcc installed somehow. Also, the only visible speed difference is on a really old, slow computer, and otherwise it goes just as quickly as many other systems. But that's just me.

bobwrits · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:00 pm

A) You had 2.13, they are up to version 4.0.
B) They now support slackware packeges.
C) Dotpups.de is the major mirror for .pup's and .pet's
D) Gcc requires Devx_(version here).sfs and that is a bit of a pain to install, but there are automated scripts to do it.

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

now how od i make my big hard drive to show up, im confused >.<
ill try to post screenshots

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

how do you take a screenshot????

also i dont think i mounted it right 0.o, its not appearing in the CMOS,

hmmm i ll take a closer look and try again

thanks for help in advance

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

got gpart to find the other hard drive, starting partition

hope i don't mess up xD

Ashkenaz · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:12 am **Posts:** 435

D:>

"error while setting new disklabel"

>.<

HELP!!!!!

Wyoming · **Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:46 am

There should be a screenshot app in the start menu, I think under graphics.
Bob, my friend won't give me back that old version, so I got a newer one. I'll try a slack package. Maybe the Devx will work this time, too.

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