How to start up Gparted? (to partition hard drive)

How can Gparted be used?

I went to download

Stable releases of GParted Live

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/

for the 0.4.6-1 version.

After the .iso image is downloaded, I burned it onto a DVD-R.

Then the DVD-R is booted. It let me choose something about the keyboard and then showed several icons on top of the screen:

Power Down, Screenshot, Terminal, GParted, Info, Screen Resolution

but double clicking on GParted has no response at all.

Clicking on Terminal brings out a shell but are we supposed to do any "yum" or "apt-get" there? Isn't the partition app already included? thanks.

nonopolarity

Posted 2009-10-23T04:37:43.230

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Answers

It is included and will start automatically, it needs to analyze your current partitioning scheme. Patience is the key!

John T

Posted 2009-10-23T04:37:43.230

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As LiraNuna said: it's possible that the gparted livecd doesn't have the drivers for your Dell machine. My guess: there's something non-free about your setup and the ubuntu firmware has it where the vanilla kernel does not. Alternately, support was added in a kernel version later than the one used by the livecd. – Broam – 2010-02-03T21:28:57.253

is that right? since there is no hourglass or activity monitor or a percent bar, it looks like it is idle... by the way, the C: isn't moving at all... is it running if that's the case? – nonopolarity – 2009-10-23T04:43:22.593

I have been waiting 5 minutes now and it is not showing anything... the C: drive light isn't blinking... – nonopolarity – 2009-10-23T04:45:01.670

2Try Ubuntu, maybe gparted liveCD doesn't have specific drivers for your SCSI device. – LiraNuna – 2009-10-23T05:16:02.903

hm... mine is a Dell Inspiron 530 with 700GB hard drive... should be a fairly basic system. So Ubuntu installation disc has a partition tool and can repartition and then not install Ubuntu? – nonopolarity – 2009-10-23T05:45:21.220

2using this DVD-R on both of my other HP computers can lead to GParted running automatically... it is just the Dell having the problem... – nonopolarity – 2009-10-23T07:08:59.553

I have had problems with bootable DVD-R's running correctly on some systems, particulary with older IDE Combo drives.

One alternative is burn it to CD-R instead of DVD-R.

Another alternative is booting SysRescueCD. The default boot has GParted GUI launchable from the desktop.

kmarsh

Posted 2009-10-23T04:37:43.230

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