Packages automatically uninstalling?

[Andy Boersma]

Hi guys,

Couple of things.

Grub prefers the /boot to be ext2 or 3, if not you may have boot issues

The basic default does not Install Gparted, you have to manually add it.

Also Grub does nothing with swap.

The easiest is to create a new larger Swap with Gparted

Then edit the /etc/fstab (sudo gedit /etc/fstab) to point the swap to 
the new partition.
You will see something like this:

UUID=303ddb67-d501-49bc-8311-14dd42fd42b3 none            swap    
sw              0       0

You can change that to:
/dev/sda3 none            swap    sw              0       0
what ever the partion number is.

The  reboot and you can check with swapon


Andy

Victor Mendonça wrote:
> Hey Bob,
>
> For the second question, I think gparted was not added by default since
> 8.04 (or 7.10). It's in the live CD, but not present after installed. 
>
> However someone might correct me on that!
>
>  
> Victor Mendonça
> IT Worker - Linux enthusiast
> http://wazem.org/
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:56:51 AM
> Subject: Packages automatically uninstalling?
>
> Hi all:  I've just put Ubuntu 8.10 on a new (to me) computer, and had a bit of problem 
> with GRUB. Using GPARTED I managed to set the correct bootable partition (sda1, to be 
> mounted as /boot, with sda2 as /), then running off the live CD I managed to get GRUB on 
> the bootable partition.  
>
> It took many attempts to get GRUB to actually load Ubuntu.  I found I had to perform the 
> GRUB incantations manually:
>
>   root (hd0,0)
>   kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=/dev/sda2
>   initrd /initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
>   boot
>
> This properly loaded Ubuntu, loaded X, and everything was good.  Wouldn't work 
> automatically, even with a proper menu.lst file.
>
> I finally ran Synaptic, and found that GRUB had not been installed.  Q: Why not?
>
> Once GRUB was installed I copied the STAGE files  &c. to /boot/grub, and ran the 'install-
> grub' script.  Everything now works (but no splashimage).
>
> The computer has only 512 MBytes memory, so I gave it a 1 GByte swap partition.  It has a 
> snappy ATI graphics card, so I'm running Compiz/Fusion and I've spent most of the day 
> spinning the cube.  What fun!  
>
> With four applications on four sides of the cube it's awfully slow to switch between 
> applications.  I thought it might need a larger swap partition and tried to find GPARTED 
> in the menus.  Not there.  
>
> Looking at Synaptic again, I find GPARTED is no longer installed.  Q: Why not?  Is it not 
> installed by default?  Was I running it off the live CD without realizing it?
>
> --Bob.
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