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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #60 on: 30 October 2005, 16:49 »
QtParted (which I think is what Aloone_Jonez was referring to) uses libparted, which is provided by GNU parted (a command-line tool for partitioning).
GParted also uses libparted, but it's for GTK+.
In order to be able to resize NTFS, you'll need ntfsprogs too.
See here for more.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #61 on: 30 October 2005, 17:13 »
QtParted, that's it!

I didn't need to download ntfsprogs but that's because it was probebly built in to Knoppix which I think is the most newb friendly way of doing this.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #62 on: 30 October 2005, 17:15 »
Huston we have Ubuntu! I just got Partition Magic. The rest is history.
I'm knida imbaressed. Turns out I just had 3 partitions on a 80GB hard drive. I just resized the one with the least on it and created a 10GB Ext3 partition. Will that be enough? BTW browsing with linux is wicked fast.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #63 on: 30 October 2005, 17:21 »
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Will that be enough?
Should be, for a good while anyhow.

Did you make a swap partition?
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #64 on: 30 October 2005, 17:27 »
Even though I recommend using a swap, I've used Linux on my 256MB machine with out a swap and never run out of memory, having said that I didn't edit any large images or anything, but I doubt this could be done with Windows.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #65 on: 30 October 2005, 17:33 »
Nope no swap partition. I got enough room to make one though. What's it used for anyway?
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #66 on: 30 October 2005, 17:39 »
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Nope no swap partition. I got enough room to make one though. What's it used for anyway?
Whenever you run out of RAM, information gets stored in the swap partition. Windows stores it in a file, called a pagefile. You can use a file for GNU/Linux too, but using a partition is more efficient.

You'd want one of at least 512mb, just to be on the safe side.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #67 on: 30 October 2005, 17:44 »
I see. But if I don't have a swap partition then won't my comp/programs just wait till system resources are freed up?
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #68 on: 30 October 2005, 17:45 »
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I see. But if I don't have a swap partition then won't my comp/programs just wait till system resources are freed up?
I dunno (always have a huge swap partition), but that's probably alot of waiting ;)
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #69 on: 30 October 2005, 20:07 »
Haha, I tried to use firefox on my laptop with damnsmalllinux and 22mb memory.

It just sat there thrashing for half an hour.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #70 on: 30 October 2005, 22:45 »
Although I haven't tried it DeLi Linux sounds good for shitty old hardware.
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Re: Distro help. Please?
« Reply #71 on: 31 October 2005, 01:07 »
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Although I haven't tried it DeLi Linux sounds good for shitty old hardware.

That sounds like quite something.  I always used muLinux for that, but it's no longer updated, and uses Netscape 3.0 and kernel 2.0 and stuff like that.  This is more up to date.
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