Easy to use/install (was Re: [Novalug] Community contribution)

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, DonJr wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:05 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
>>  	Maybe one of you will know. I installed qtparted in U7,
>> and both times it would launch from its icon, but with an error
>> message including something like "Maybe you're not root?" -- and
>> then the launch was useless -- it got no info.
>
> Not sure what you mean by U7.

 	Sorry -- Ubuntu 7.10

> How was the icon configured?
> Should of been something like:
>   gksudo /path/qtparted

 	Errr... configure? An icon? Dumb looks still free ...

> { or something to that effect. } If it was "sudo" that was a 
> mistake before Ubuntu 7.10, not sure what they've changed.

 	[More dumb looks.]

>>  	If I launched it as root with "qtparted &" I got a 
>> different error.
>
> Yes if root didn't have a valid X Display the error should of 
> been:
>    cannot open display

 	I don't recall for sure, and this is CentOS's week on 
that machine; what's more, it has just updated a kernel -- 
meaning the triple boot may or may not keep working, and I may or 
may not be able to salvage it ...

> Note I've never had qtparted installed in a normal install 
> setup except for the time it took me to rip it out after a 
> fresh install.
>
>  Yes, I have a Boot CD with qtparted on it that I've used to 
> resize NTFS partitions and pre-allocate disk space before an 
> install.
>
>  I also have RIP(1) with qtparted included.
>
>  I've just never seen a reason to have it installed on a normal 
> system as I have never in the past needed to resize a running 
> system.
>  {A system pre-prepared for it and shutdown is a different 
> story.}

 	Well, all I'd ever done with it or gparted either, till a 
week or two ago, was launch it and look, not venture to change 
anything. For that it has the benefit of visually identifying, at 
a glance, what OS is on each partition. And that can be a big 
help.

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