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[r__hughes]

I have a Gparted problem on both my computers -
1) IBM thinkpad T22 - 30Ghd - 384MRAM
2) AMD K6 475MHz - 30Ghd+10Ghd+10Ghd - 512MRAM

Gparted comes up with a greyed-out window and an infinitely moving blue bug. It happens on all the following pup versions -
2.16, 2.17, 2.171, 3.01 and 3.01 retro Live CD disks.
In all other respects the puppy system looks fine. and the pmount drive mounter works fine for both computers reporting -
for (1) a 30G vfat hda1
for (2) a 30G vfat hda1, 10G vfat hdd1, 10G vfat hdd5
partview works fine and the pdisk partition manager correctly shows the same as pmount.

Only Gparted has the greyed out problem.

Note - the only series 2 pup used prior to 2.16 was pup202 in which Gparted worked fine - both with Live CD boot and frugal boot using pup4dos.

I have searched the forum but can't see any other mention of this problem.

[headfound]

I've had the same problem too. I think its down to gparted being fairly memory and processor intensive so takes ages to work. I'm currently using a frugal 3.01 install on a 1ghz P3 with 192megs of ram and it won't work.
I always use Parted Magic
http://partedmagic.com/
Free linux livecd, only 30megs, just gparted! Always works.

[peppyy]

I had the same problem with Tmxxine, booted to 2.01 and partitioned the drive then booted Tmxinne again and did a full install.
IBM Thinkpad T30 1.8P4 mobile and 1gb ram

[HairyWill]

do you guys have floppies installed, if not this might be the problem
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=115673&search_id=1678885687#115673

[r__hughes]

My IBM T22 Thinkpad has no floppy drive - it only came with a CD-reader in its so-called ultrabay - when I launch Gparted from a terminal screen I get no fd0 warnings after 30min or so.

The AMD K6 PC has one floppy, 2 CD drives and 3 HDs - it also hangs up indefinitely and gives no fd0 warnings if Gparted is launched from a terminal screen.

-- edited 04nov07 - a previous reference was erroneously made to a wrong message - sorry.

[peppyy]

I had the same problem on a T30, see this thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=17990&start=60
If you disable Legacy Floppy in the bios Gparted works like a charm

[r__hughes]

Hi peppyy thanks for the links and references.

I copied /dev to /dev_copy (just in case) then used the terminal to remove all fd references from /dev

[SJPUP]

I had this problem and added the target drive to the command,