On Sat, 3 May 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 03 mai 14, 14:28:32, Bret Busby wrote:One thing that I note - in using the xfce version of the Debian 7.4 amd64, I could not find (without entering the installation component) a hard disk ustility, for partition work on the hard drive (like gparted, I think it was, in GNOME 2 on Debian 6.x), to edit the partitioning on a Win 8 computer, before installing anything else on that computer. I looked in both the Systems -> Admin and Systems -> Preferences, and, in the System Utilities components of the menus, for a disk utility, for editing the partitions, but, could not find one.Not by default, but what prevents you from installing gparted? Kind regards, Andrei
I was running it from the LIVE ISO disk - I wanted to repartition the HDD, before commencing the installation (I wanted to try to install another OS, before installing Debian Linux 7, so that I could pick up the extra OS, with the GRUB bootloader scanning, when I installed Debian Linux 7).
I intend to look at it again, during next week; I believe that the partitioning during the (aborted) installation process, should have effected.
From memory, gparted was included in the Debian 6 and/or Debian 5 LIVE
ISO images, but, I could be wrong in that belief.I assume that the ommission of gparted from the Debian 7.4 amd64 xfce LIVE ISO, is because gparted is a utility from the GNOME desktop environment, and that xfce does not have an equivalent utility. Once again, I could be wrong in that perception.
-- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................