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  • jerden
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Topic: Boot Gparted through USB on Samsung NC10

Hi guys i just got a samsung nc10 the little netbook and for some reason it has its HDD partitioned into two separate drives on is C:/ like normal and has all the stuff you expect it to but D:/ contains nothing its empty and all my folders are on the C drive so instead of going back and forth I'm trying to get rid of this partitioning so its just C there ive used Gparted countless time on my PC and other laptop but using the USB is new to me.

Ive followed the steps and used live usb helper to make the USB bootable ive downloaded the old Gparted usb live image and installed it to the stick it went through and said it finished fine. So i restarted and pressed escape to change the boot device it worked fine and booted the usb but when it gets into the usb it says linux image cannot be found and i keep getting this problem everytime i try even after reinstalling it onto the stick can anyone help me with what to do please?

Ive tried ls to look inside the directory but that does nothing is there something im missing?

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Re: Boot Gparted through USB on Samsung NC10

Hello jerden,

I understand, that your new netbook doesn't have a built-in CDROM drive, so that you need to use a USB flash stick for "GParted".  You created your bootable USB stick with the help of "USB helper" and an (old? version ?) "GParted ISO-Image". When booting, kernel starts, but complains about missing Linux image file ("initrd1.img"/very early  or "filesystem.squashfs"/ later during boot process ? ). This might happen, if these two files are not located in folder "/live" or - since Linux file names are case-sensitive - if they are written other than totally in lower-case letters. Or the boot menu entries (/isolinux/isolinux.cfg) do not match these requirements, too.

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cmdr