How do I get around small / partition?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Bonner
Hi, I had several problems during install with RC1 (my questions in 272626 went unanswered :-( ), but the problem that makes me think I have to start over is the 130MB partition the installer chose for my root partition. This was on a 160GB disk. I figured at the time that perhaps there was s

Re: How do I get around small / partition?

2004-10-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Matt Bonner wrote: I assume at this point, I have to wipe the disk and reinstall, but if anyone knows of a way to resize the partitions, that would be great. That's what I would do in your circumstances. In any case, resizing a partition (even when possible because the

Re: How do I get around small / partition?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Bonner
Hi, --- Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Matt Bonner wrote: > > > > > I assume at this point, I have to wipe the disk and reinstall, > > but if anyone knows of a way to resize the partitions, that would > > be great. > > > > That's what I would do in your cir

Re: How do I get around small / partition?

2004-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Bonner wrote: > It does. I still think it's weird that the basic mode wouldn't let > me adjust the partition sizes. Is there any important limit to the > size of the first partition? This is a fairly generic Athlon PC w/ > Award BIOS... It probably won't let you resize the first partition