[Bulk] Re: [opensuse] defrag

[Karl F. Larsen]

Knapp wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Anton Aylward wrote:
>>> John Heinen said the following on 02/13/2010 02:57 PM:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Well, what happened is that my gateway with winxp and many other
>>>> tries with live cd Linux just quit, that is the lights are flashing but
>>>> the screen stays dark,  puppy linux  is the only one that could get some
>>>> life with the message "defrage please". I probably need a new  hard
>>>> drive or find one smart cd that can work miracles.
>>>>
>>> Curious.
>>>
>>> I think you have hardware problems.
>>> I have a folder of LiveCDs for Linux - I seem to collect them :-)
>>> All of them work on my 3-year old Presario, a couple don't on my
>>> father's 5-year old ACER, but that only has 256K of memory :-(
>>>
>>> Defrag WHAT?
>>>
>>> The whole point of the LiveCD is that you run entirely from the CD.
>>> I can imagine it would DETECT whatever disk you have, but that's all.
>>> Unless you open a browser/file-manager it shouldn't take any notice of
>>> your hard drive.
>>>
>>> Worst case - whcih is why some won't run on my father's machine - the
>>> LiveCD tries to consturct an in-memory file system. Â Obviously there
>>> would be no point in trying to derag that!
>>>
>>>
>>> Linux file system don't need defrag.
>>> So where is that emssage coming from?
>>>
>>> Are you sure you're not trying to install Linux ONTO a MS file system?
>>> I recall Mandriva and I tink Ubunttu have options for that.
>>>
>>> Where did you get you LiveCD from?
>>> Did you checksum it
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed it is liggit, Â bought it from Discountlinux, a very reputable
>> firm, that particular livecd puppy 431 does work fine on two other
>> machines, with opensuse and also with ubuntu on the hard drive, and that
>> is what it said " Â DEFRAG PLEASE"
> 
> The old way of installing on a HD with MS was to defrag XP and then
> shrink its partition to make room for Linux. This could be the source.
> 

	That is still the way! If you buy a laptop with windows, you 
run a liveCD and with Gpart discover 100% of the hard disk is 
being used.

	So then defrag the windows which is spread out all over the 
100GB partition. And then with Gpart you steal what you need 
from the windows partition.


73 Karl




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