<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Steve,<br>
that laptop already has linux Mint17 and Windows XP installed on it.<br>
cfdisk is new to me.. I've used parted, gparted, fdisk..... but not<br>
cfdisk. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>cfdisk is just a prettier fdisk. parted and gparted solve a different problem than cfdisk -- non-destructive partition editing.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">partitioning is not new to me, which is why I was amazed that it<br>
failed for me ;( for "normal" people with an existing system, you would<br>
think this would just WORK..<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why? No one ever said Void is an Ubuntu like distribution. It's more akin to Slackware or Arch Linux. These are not distributions for the feint of heart.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I just ran cfdisk on my desktop system, cfdisk /dev/sdb, and that looks<br>
very much like what I saw on the void installer. not very intuitive, I<br>
had NO idea what I needed to do! after a few back & forths, it seemed<br>
that I had what I wanted, my existing /dev/sda2 as "/" and /dev/sda5 as<br>
/home, but it failed... I am at a loss as to what to do. I've never had<br>
success with chroot.. again the syntacs escapes me..</blockquote><div> </div><div>You should _*not*_ be using cfdisk on a disk that has data you want to keep. It is a destructive partition editor. Unless you typically leave a lot of unpartitioned space on your disks, you'll have to delete at least some or all of your current partition map to create new partitions. It will ask if you _really_ want to do that, and you have probably (correctly) said "no." And that's the "failure" -- not destroying your data.</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)</div><div><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)</div><div><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (band page)</div></div></div></div></div>
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