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Ben Goodger wrote: > Hello > > I appear, as usual, to have completely fecked my Gentoo installation. If > anyone can give me some help with it in a few days that'd be lovely - it > concerns X and such... > Also, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with Ubuntu. The > partitioners on > the "desktop" discs (x86) for Dapper, Edgy and Feisty both show only empty > space on sda, although the fstab-gui bit shows all my partitions. > Unfortunately, whatever I try, I am then told "no root filesystem" when > installing. In Feisty's "alternate" (i.e. non-patronising installer) > version, this happens also (I lack alternate discs for Edgy or Dapper.) So > how do I fix my partition table so that gparted can see it? I presume this > is the cause of the problem... > > Happy Patronisingly-Secular Winter Festival Time!!! > or, Merry Christmas! > Suggest you use Knoppix to fix partition tables and partitions and then reinstall. -- Regards Eion MacDonald (eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Tel. +44 (0) 1925762873 Unencrypted electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html