Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:41:53 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Samani Marions Panyaught NYC-11357-3436-287-USA Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:41:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="13542"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: tin/2.6.0-20210823 ("Coleburn") (NetBSD/9.3 (amd64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37669 In by vjp2.at@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com on Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:09:28 we perused: *+-CAE Linux Lite works on the machine I couldn't load Quantian on, *+-however it ignores my sda5 10MB linux partition and tries to use my sda7 data *+-partiton, dividing it into a linux sda7 and data sda8. *+-SHould I totally delete my extended (linux, swap, data) partiton, tkae the *+-opportunity to slightly enlarge windows and then let it shape the remaining *+-disk to its pleasure? I did it, it worked.. but no swap or data partitions.. and DOS and windows boot from MS submenu not top menu -- Vasos Panagiotopoulos panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---