Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Using Gparted with Dell Vostro 1500

I was planning to make a Fat32 partition on my hard drive to use it with knoppix. I downloaded the Gparted ISO image and burned it into a CD. Those who don't know what is Gparted: it's a debian based linux utility software basically used to resize, move and create partition. This is what i did and got stucked.
  1. Boot the system with the Gparted cd.
  2. Do everything as said in the screen.
  3. Finally, the problem occurred when the X-server crashed continuously.
  4. This is how I solve the problem
    1. sudo Forcevideo (it means type "sudo Forcevideo" in the prompt that occurs after the X-server crashes) the X-server and choose the option medium.
    2. Supply keyboard configuration as P101
    3. Reply "No" to Video Hardware detection.
    4. Choose "Vesa" as the driver
    5. Reply "No" to Kernel Frame Buffer.
    6. Reply "No" to Monitor auto detection.
  5. This should be all to reconfigure the X-server. Now in the prompt type "sudo startx".
  6. Now you should be able to run the X-server.
Thanks, Let me know if there are any questions or concerns.