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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/24/2015 05:08 PM, James Sumners
wrote:<br>
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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>
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<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>
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with enlightenment or Mate ( LIVE Cds) of void, it looked just like
I see it now.. only difference is the packaging app.. it is just
getting by that partitioning issue.<br>
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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>
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<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>
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on the laptop I tried it both ways, format/no format, they both
failed. maybe I needed ti delete the partition first & create a
new one.. I'll play with it again this weekend when I have more
time..<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587</pre>
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