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[nooby]

Thanks, I guess it easiest for me to keep it as is
until it show the need for expanding.
Much appreciated you cared.

[nooby]

[bigpup]

[nooby]

I find this description good
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=617819#617819

The problem for me is that I don't know how to use gparted to do
what rcrsn51 suggests. I have found this tutorial
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html

But I drown in all the details. So I need a helping hand to start
with what rcrsn51 describe in link above.

[nooby]

Finally Now I have started up an old computer HP Pavilion
that have no internal HD so nothing can be compromized
except the 2GB usb flash memory that I use to boot and
use puppy to gparted the external USB 20GB HD.

So that situation is a bit like the old Dell that now is on Trash Bin.

So please teach me how to do these partitions. I am ready!

[rcrsn51]

[nooby]

But I want to follow your suggestion and make that small one first.

Now it is a big 19GB one.

So how do I make a small one that will become the sda1 with
grub4dos on it?

I can understand that you know. I have no idea how I did the
Dell machine. That where several days ago and that knowledge
is gone now. And it took me a whole day of experiments to get it
and I don't know what I did. I failed many times before it finally worked.

So need only to know how to start anew now when I have everything set up.

[rcrsn51]

Right-click on the big partition and delete it.
Click on Apply - the big green check mark.
Right-click on the unallocated space and create a New partition.
There are lots of pull-down lists to try.

[nooby]

Yes but one have to tell it how big it should be and such.
Why should I delete it? Should I not resize it so the small
one comes first?

I don't even know how to add one to the one you say I should create first.

Too many unknown things to chose among. I drown in all the options.
Don't know in what order one do things

[nooby]

Okay now I have followed the description from t6he link I gave.
Looks like this

Does that look okay? I guess now I shall install something on the ext3
and tell that to do grub2 on that ext3 whatever name it has.

then I boot back into puppy and use grub4dos then
and install puppy frugally on the first partition with
grubdos finding both puppy and the grub 2 linux?

I am installing LM12 on the ext3 partition now.
Have no idea if that works or not.
It did not ask about making a grub2 install or not
so I hope it place such on that partition. I guess
this install will take a long time? So I get back and
tell if I could boot it or not. Then I reboot into puppy
on a 2GB usb stick and use that one to do a grub4dos
frugal install of lupu528 and hope that g4d find the LM12
and do a good chain load thing so I can boot both later.

[rcrsn51]

[nooby]

But this is the test computer.

I am booted in LM12 now but it fail to boot using the LM12 install
It booted using the grub4 dos install.

It never show the grub.conf dsiplay.
So not sure what that is all about.

How can I test that?

Or maybe I have to make the grub2 boot visisble by
edit out the hidden. I 've seen such reports on other forums?

[rcrsn51]

[nooby]

But grub2 is the way to boot the majority of linux.

Take Crunchbang as far as I know it will only boot
using grub2 and a lot of other linux says so too?

I mean how am I supposed to add another linux and test that one?

I need to add to 40_custom the stanza for that linux
and then do update_grub or what code there where.

But if I never see grub 2 how can I boot ArchBang
I would need to do gru4dos config again.

[rcrsn51]