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For some reason, the "New" button was disabled on G-parted. How would I create a partition?

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When I was booting it from the CD, it said something like extra features couldn't be used. It had a choice of skipping them, so I did (since it said it's for most computers). Would that have anything to do with the "new" button?

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I was asked for the screen depth. What is it?

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Re: "New" button disabled

G-parted < GParted :-)

"When I was booting it from the CD, it said something like extra features couldn't be used. It had a choice of skipping them, so I did (since it said it's for most computers). Would that have anything to do with the "new" button?"

No. Make some free space and then click on the free space. You can't make a "new" partition if you don't have free space.

"I was asked for the screen depth. What is it?"

Type "screen depth" in the google search bar. The internet works in amazing ways. :-)

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Re: "New" button disabled

How do I make some free space?

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let me ask you a question: why do you want to use a partitioner? I have to feeling you don't understand what's going on and in that case partitioning is very dangerous.

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Re: "New" button disabled

Actually... I figured out how to make some free space.

let me ask you a question: why do you want to use a partitioner? I have to feeling you don't understand what's going on and in that case partitioning is very dangerous.

I need to make a partition for installing linux.

I tried to resize the main partition, but it failed. Any help?

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ah ok, that makes sense smile
Is it possible you send us a screenshot of your current partitionlayout?

And what do you mean by 'but it failed'?

thanks

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plors wrote:

Is it possible you send us a screenshot of your current partitionlayout?

I'm not sure how...

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And what do you mean by 'but it failed'?

It gave me a pretty long error message saying that it couldn't be completed.

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Re: "New" button disabled

Here you can find how to make screenshots :
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … enshot.htm

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Re: "New" button disabled

LarryT wrote:

Here you can find how to make screenshots :
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … enshot.htm

But how would I access the screenshot from Windows XP?

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Re: "New" button disabled

Where did you save the screenshots you did within GParted livecd ?

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Re: "New" button disabled

I saved it in root. I double checked with the file manager.

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in the root of the livecd? That space only exists in memory and will disappear as soon as you reboot. You need to save it to a permanent location like an usbstick.

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Want to know how to save file ?
Have a look at this smile :
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … etails.htm

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Re: "New" button disabled

I tried the USBstick one, and it didn't work.

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Re: "New" button disabled

ntfs-3g is on the livecd and it works very well.

mkdir d
ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 d
cp gparted.jpeg d

Should have full r/w access to ntfs.

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xjosje, in the first place: welcome to the wonderfull world of linux and Open Source smile

second, now you're here with us, you should learn to participate and participation starts with accurate 'bugreports'. Statements like 'it didn't work' don't help us in tracking down issues. smile
Try to be very specific about what exactly went wrong and what you were doing.

thanks! smile

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Re: "New" button disabled

Here is what I did:

First I typed this after the root@GParted: ~#

xwd > gparted.dmp

then I pressed Ctrl + Alt, and clicked on the GParted window.
I switched back to the terminal window and then typed 

fdisk -l | grep sd

and it gave me a bunch of information.
Finally I typed

mkdir /tmp/usb          
mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/usb/
cp gparted_details.htm /tmp/usb/
umount /tmp/usb

Then I closed the application and went back to Windows XP, and when I checked the usb stick, it was empty.

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hm, you'd better try a ls /tmp/usb before to umount and reboot ....
I always do... it is more save when using live system.

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Re: "New" button disabled

LarryT wrote:

hm, you'd better try a ls /tmp/usb before to umount and reboot ....

I'm not sure what you're talking about

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xjosie729 wrote:
LarryT wrote:

hm, you'd better try a ls /tmp/usb before to umount and reboot ....

I'm not sure what you're talking about

#ls /tmp/usb will return the contain of the directory. if it retunr nothing, that means the file has not been copied there !
e.g. : if i type this :
[frlaurent@server1 frlaurent]$ ls /home/frlaurent/
I get this :
Desktop  evolution  home
that means i have three directory in this folder !

For you it should return :
gparted_details.htm

right ?

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Re: "New" button disabled

I got the screenshot now. But I can't view it or upload it to my webhost