[Novalug] CentOS/ubuntu update

[Beartooth]

> Do you mean "Partition Magic?"

 	No. Some of my posts look to be disappearing. I found a 
partition program actually called partlogic 0.69, downloaded it, 
and burned a CD.

>>          My partlogic partioning CD booted OK on the CentOS 
>> box, and as soon as I fired it up, it issued a warning : 
>> "Unknown disk label. Writing changes will create an MS-DOS 
>> label."
>>
>>          Does that mean I shouldn't use it?
>>
>>  	Everything I google just confuses me some more ....

 	I finally gave up on partlogic; and my gparted live cd 
wouldn't boot. So I burned a second copy of ubuntu 
6.06.1-alternate, which unlike the first copy did boot, and tried 
to slog my way through installing in text mode, something I had 
never tried before.

 	It hung up on me several times. It wouldn't always take 
choices which it offered -- like "back" and "cancel." But the 
last two or three times I started over, it seemed to have 
repartitioned, with Centos in a 15 GB partition, and two 
additional 13 GB partitions.

 	Finally I got it to a point where it let me tell it to 
put ubuntu into the largest stretch of *free* space.

 	It installed it.

 	Now the blamefool thing boots *only* to ubuntu, and I 
can't even find a grub.conf file to edit. Not plain, not in /etc, 
not in /boot, afaict.

 	An unless/until I manage to get it to let me be root, 
*without* typing sudo every gd time, I *still* find it terminally 
irritating. Ditto synaptic. Even the desktop graphics grate on 
me.

 	If this blasted thing has blown away the CentOS I had 
finally gotten usably set up, I'm going to take all my kumbaya -- 
excuse me, ubuntu -- media to the firing range ....

-- 
Beartooth Paganus, Staffwright, Sciurivore
What do they know of country, who only country know?