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Topic: Solved - booted Gpart-live 0.3.7 but can't start any program

I have booted up the live-cd version 0.3.7 successfully?

It leaves me with a screen blank apart from a line of Icons with the first one being a red button with an 'I' within a circle. I assume this represents an 'on switch'.

If I pass the cursor over this button, it changes to a hand. However, no matter how many times I click on it, nothing happens. The same non-result happens for each and every one of the others as well.

Any body got any idea what I should do next?

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Re: Solved - booted Gpart-live 0.3.7 but can't start any program

These buttons are to double-click, not just click wink

The red 0-1 is for shutting down the system.
There is an icon GParted, with something like a disk. I guess the system didn't boot as expected. Try to press ctrl+alt+backspace. This would kill X and leave you in a black terminal screen. There, you can enter the commands:

sudo Forcevideo

to configure X parameters, and

sudo startx

to restart X.
Choose default keymap (second option), a resolution 1024x768 or 800x600 and default language.

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Re: Solved - booted Gpart-live 0.3.7 but can't start any program

Just tried to boot off the Gparted livecd. All I got was a series of errors:

vesamenu.c32. attempted DOS system call

will try booting another machine tomorrow but this machine is theo ne I want to partition.

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Re: Solved - booted Gpart-live 0.3.7 but can't start any program

Just booted off another machine (athlon 64) worked fine - put up screen with 6 icons togetherwith descriptive captions AND started GParted as well. Same I don't want to use it on that one.

The other machine is 4-6 years old, a duron 1200 with SIS 630/730 display, currently running Windows Me. Obviously GParted doesn't like it.  I'll have to try another method.

We can regard this problem as solved. Thanks to class413 for trying.

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Re: Solved - booted Gpart-live 0.3.7 but can't start any program

You could try to use an older version like 0.3.4-5, 0.3.4-6 or 0.3.4-7 on this old computer.

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