Help! I've installed a GNU on the same volume as XP

fwor

nottseagull wrote: »

How do I discover that?

GPARTED tells you what filesystem each partition is formatted to. Unsurprisingly this is shown in the column titled "File System".

nottseagull

I am wary about using the advanced mode as I don't want to risk loss of windows (I still have the 1.7 GB Windows folder in Slitaz)
The second pic is just the explanations for the options in the first. The third is another list of options, the highlighted one being
‘Windows (advanced)’, which leads to pics 4 & 5. The diagonal one is a continuation from '...lly' ('usually')

fwor

What filesystem does gparted say your existing partition is formatted to?

nottseagull

23n1th wrote: »

There is nothing incorrect about that statement, it does work from RAM and removable media such as CDs and USB drives. YOU installed it on your hard drive.

Read it again!
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key.

Any normal person would think that meant it ran completely in RAM!
Obviously I installed it to my hard drive, but as the option didn't say 'install to hard drive' I would have thought it impossible.

23n1th

I think you'll find that it wont install itself without you telling it to. Where ever you run it from (ie a CD, USB drive, and yes your Hard drive) it will run in RAM as it loads everything to RAM. If you downloaded the install image instead of the Live image that is your fault.

Maybe if you had done some research and listened to more experienced people trying to help you out you might not still be posting useless pictures. You can't even answer a simple question (asked twice) from the only poster you haven't turned against you with your attitude (fwor).

nottseagull

23n1th wrote: »

Maybe if you had done some research and listened to more experienced people trying to help you out you might not still be posting useless pictures. You can't even answer a simple question (asked twice) from the only poster you haven't turned against you with your attitude (fwor).

Look at the times of the request and my posts. I don't take my tower to the library....

fwor

nottseagull wrote: »

Read it again!
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key.

Any normal person would think that meant it ran completely in RAM!
Obviously I installed it to my hard drive, but as the option didn't say 'install to hard drive' I would have thought it impossible.

I'm sorry, but you are wrong.

I've downloaded the obvious package on the SliTaz main download page, which is described as "LiveCD - Stable Version", written it to a CD-RW and booted my laptop from it. It did not attempt to install to my hard disk, and does not even offer the option to install from a desktop icon, unlike Ubuntu and many others. To install, you actively have to choose the application menu and select System Tools, SliTaz Installer. I find it hard to believe that someone could do that by accident.

Incidentally, there are no "installation only" packages on the main SliTaz download page - they all boot by default as LiveCDs.

[Edit: BTW, for anyone interested in SliTaz, the base package is tiny (30Mb), and it detected all of my hardware fine, and runs really well as a LiveCD on my poor old PIII based laptop, so from a quick look it's pretty good.]

23n1th

nottseagull wrote: »

Look at the times of the request and my posts. I don't take my tower to the library....

What has that got to do with anything?

stilltheone

nottseagull wrote: »

I didn't. It was your idea, which I never even considered.


Well, if I had not done that, I'd have been ignoring their suggestion in favour of yours. How was I supposed to know that the other guy's suggestion was the wrong one, and that yours is always correct?



I said that I had posted that log on another thread because nobody had analysed the original. You have translating that into me blaming anybody who didn't spot it or have time to look at it.


I didn't blame him, look back in this thread and you will find I wrote that the SliTaz site stated
SliTaz is a free operating system, working completely in RAM and booting from removable media such as a cdrom or USB key.
It was this incorrect statement I was criticising.

If you cannot add anything constructive, I'd rather you didn't post again on this thread.

I think that you first line speaks for itself and explains why you have only moved backwards with this problem for two months.

As my suggestion was broadly in line with others, in that you needed a full distro as opposed to a cut down version, you ignored mine and their advice at your peril.
Since no one actually has the make and model of your USB modem, how could they know whether the Distros suggested had support for your modem?

It why they suggested a full distro, in that you would be less likely to need to download the switches and options needed to get your modem to work....even if it were possible to do this using a Live version.
Secondly your statement

I was just annoyed as I felt I had been duped into downloading it.

from this post: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=38793212&postcount=20 shows your utter inability to take responsibility for your actions.

Look at another of your quotes..

Not as painful as following peoples' suggestions, I can assure you.
The fact is that not a single person can tell me if any particular version of Linux is compatible with Mobile Broadband dongles.

Actually you were told...that you needed a full distro from a magazine perhaps(and I even offered to send you one for free)...but you decided to ignore all advice other than wanting to download tiny distros at the library.

Another one of your many related threads..... How can I install SP1 to an XP pc with no product key? https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2847478

Even if you extracted the key, you would need a corresponding XP disc....and you would still be running it with a stolen licence.

These are all part of the same problem. You are confusing everyone to the point of not wanting to deal with you at all. So then you begin a new thread...

Someone with the correct knowledge could remedy all of your problems swiftly. Certainly within a day. But there is absolutely no joy in working with you.

People here help because they love helping people and solving problems. But there is no joy in working with you at all.
You have made the job sixty times more dificult(so far) and have made it into a war against your own intransigence.

No doubt many are sitting back wondering what the hell you are doing.

Believe me, your problem is so easy to solve, but the PEBKAC.

If you think that what I am writing isn't constructive, I hope that you are still young and will learn from your mistakes.

Even else can see them but you.

We've been trying to help you for months now, but you prefer to do it your way and we are more than bored with trying to help you with your personality( It is that which is holding you back. The computer problems are easily fixed).

I hope that you are not too old in order to learn new lessons. The problem is you, change direction.

paddyrg

fwor wrote: »

[Edit: BTW, for anyone interested in SliTaz, the base package is tiny (30Mb), and it detected all of my hardware fine, and runs really well as a LiveCD on my poor old PIII based laptop, so from a quick look it's pretty good.]

Actually that's really helpful info - I have got three beautifully engineered thin client machines that boot from 32M CF cards (too small for DSLinux or Puppy even), would make awesome kiosk machines, slitaz sounds worth a try from what you say!