Thanks much for all the help. Upshot is, my new Linux OS now is up and working as it should. (Next task will be getting truetype fonts installed, but that's for another day.)
Checked the partitions (via the df -h command), and sure enough, the installer had allowed just barely enough space in the OS main partition to put it in there - about 2.33gb. Solution was via a gparted live disk. Had never used gparted before, but with a little web research got it to expand the partition to about 10gb, which ought to be good enough for the time being, without doing damage anywhere else (XP still seems to be working normally too, and all the files seem to be in place). And there's still about 100 gb unused space on the drive. No more error messages on Mint. So that seems to have resolved it. Anyhow, thanks again for all the speedy (and useful) help. Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests On Oct 30, 2009, at 7:58 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:47:28 -0700 > Randy Stapilus <[email protected]> dijo: > >> One other thought. When I went through partitioning, I didn't specify >> anywhere the *size* of the new partition for Linux. Might it be that >> the installer automatically sized it just large enough for the OS, >> and then when I loaded in scribus, all the space was used up? Might >> that suggest I need to re-size the partition (there should be more >> than 100 gb available on the hard drive)? >> >> If i can get back into the Linux os . . . > > There exists a live CD of gparted, the open source partition manager: > > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > > You can even boot to it from a USB stick. > > Regarding your initial problem, once you have gparted running via live > CD or USB stick you can use it to see what size your Linux > partition is > and how much of it is used. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
