Hi!

Am Samstag, 17. M�rz 2018 schrieb William Morder:
> [...]
> Also - one of those bugs - I cannot start gparted (or any gnome application) 
> as root. I've tried tdesu and gksu. The Trinity sudo works okay for TDE 
> programs, but the gksu always rejects my password, even though I am sure of 
> the password. This is also a problem when I do a new installation. I can only 
> get admin privileges by sudo or su when I am in a shell; and except for the 
> shell, it's not until after I've installed the Trinity packages (especially 
> the Trinity sudo packages) that I can do anything as root. It would be nice 
> to be able to resize the root partition (assuming I won't lose information in 
> the home partition ... but I've got a fresh backup, anyway). Otherwise, I 
> will proceed with a system reinstallation at some point, and resize 
> partitions then. 

Ok, this won't work that way :-)

Please download slacko from here http://slacko.eezy.xyz/download.php - best use the 32 bit iso http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-6.3.2/32/slacko-6.3.2-uefi.iso

either burn the iso or make "dd if=slacko-6.3.2-uefi.iso of=/dev/<the-usb-stick>"
Boot from the iso, open a terminal, start gparted. Now you can resize partitions. BTW, slacko is slackware based :-)

When you have problems booting from USB, then please post what hardware you are using. When you use Lenovo/IBM, you migh have to press F12 to select the boot media. Also not all usb sticks boot on all computers.

Nik


> 
> Thanks for any guidance here. I can generally do partitioning and system 
> installations in my sleep (and often have done), but this problem with sudo 
> (mentioned by myself and others elsewhere) is a pain in the *ma-hony*. 
> 
> Bill
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