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meo

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Posted: June 02 2008,07:32

Hi Juanito!

It made me glad when I saw that you had submitted and extension of gparted to DSL but when I tried it out and it started to run it finished with "no devices detected". What could be the explanation of that? I'm running DSL-embedded 4.3 from usb-connected SDHC memory card. I'm using gtk+-2.12.9 instead of the other gtk2 library. Well I don't know what could have caused it.

Have fun and thank you for making nice extensions,
meo

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Juanito

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Posted: June 02 2008,07:49

I may be wrong here, but I would think that gparted would require direct, low level, access to the devices you wish to repartition. This would probably mean (I don't know for sure, I never ran dsl embedded) that an embedded/virtual boot would not allow gparted the access it needs.

Similarly, for gparted to access a hd, you would probably need the hd to be unmounted - implying dsl booted from cd/usb.

As I recall, gparted on my old desktop frugal hd install would only detect usb sticks and gparted on my laptop usb boot would only detect the hd.

meo

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Posted: June 02 2008,12:00

Hi again Juanito!

Maybe I wasn't clear enough about how I am using DSL. Right now I'm using an usb-stick with DSL 4.4RC2 to try it out. That is also the embedded version of this RC. I usually don't use it embedded in another OS but just want to have the possibility. When I made my first post in this thread I was using DSL 4.3 (also the embedded one) as if it was just an usb-drive. Since I'm using an old laptop (7+ years) I can't boot directly from usb so I use a cd to boot with the following boot code: "dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 frugal". So the SDHC card functions as an external usb harddrive. Nevertheless that might be the reason that gparted doesn't find any devices.

Have fun and keep up your appreciated work,
meo

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kuky

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Posted: June 02 2008,21:39

Master Po Juanito i am only Grasshopper but by the procedure try and error i have the same results than meo..no devices detected

hd install dsl 4.4.rc2 with gtk2 2.19 uci

beers to meo and juanito