rhema7 Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 I'm gettig ready for bed but I need some help here.I'm trying to install ubuntu 5.04 on a XP/ Xandros 3.0 system.My Xandros Partitionn is 20 gig formated rieser I would like to resize giving 5gig to Xandro 5gig to ubuntu and 10gig fat32 for storage.The trouble is I cannot re-size with Partition Magic 8.0 or with QtParted (niether from in Xandros or from knoppix) any ideas about this?the other problem is I have anther problemI had a spare fat partition and in my desire to install ubuntu I formated it and install on it. when it gets to the user account setup everything goes fine untill I get to the password setup then My keyboard stops working (at least the letters and nums)what's up with this? I even tried a different install disk.Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 hmmm. I don't think anytools resize rieser 100%, knoppix does not have the reiser qtparted lib so it can't. my distro I think should 95% of the time.. I have not tested it though. but if you can not resize and you have other partitions you can backup to.. say a fat partition, you can always tar off the partition, blow it away, rebuild new partitons and untar.. your boot sector should still be intact so no work there. also is your fat partiton full. It sounds like its full and trying to write to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
naraku9333 Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 the other problem is I have anther problemI had a spare fat partition and in my desire to install ubuntu I formated it and install on it. when it gets to the user account setup everything goes fine untill I get to the password setup then My keyboard stops working (at least the letters and nums)what's up with this? I even tried a different install disk.Preston<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm not entirely sure if this is the case, but maybe ubuntu doesnt echo anything when typing the password. When you press enter does anything happen? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhema7 Posted August 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 the other problem is I have anther problemI had a spare fat partition and in my desire to install ubuntu I formated it and install on it. when it gets to the user account setup everything goes fine untill I get to the password setup then My keyboard stops working (at least the letters and nums)what's up with this? I even tried a different install disk.Preston<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm not entirely sure if this is the case, but maybe ubuntu doesnt echo anything when typing the password. When you press enter does anything happen?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Sorry I have had to sleep go to work and work on my wifes laptop. when I hit enter it takes me back to it again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 sounds like it is not echo'ing.. and you may not be entering a password orver 6 char, and the same one twiceI need to download ubuntu and test it as, more and more questions are being based on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 I need to download ubuntu and test it as, more and more questions are being based on it.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ubuntu is not too bad, I've run it for some time.It has a few things going for it.1. Good hardware detection.2. It'll run on old and new computers; it doesn't use a lot of system resources to run.3. It has apt-get and synaptic for easy package installation.4. Ease of use for newcomers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 It has apt-get and synaptic for easy package installation.oh.. well never mind.. no emerge, no configure make make install... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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