[H-GEN] Linux live CDs [was Re: Linux file system problems]

[gavin duley]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 23:07 +1000, gavin duley wrote:

> Thanks, that sounds like a good suggestion. I probably even have 
> a .iso file stored somewhere on a computer here -- I doubt I need 
> the latest version of Debian for this. If not, I'll give the gparted 
> CD a suggestion, that sounds like it would be perfect for what I want.

I just (finally) got around to doing this. I tried the Debian CD option
first. This would have worked, only the .iso I had on hand was for lenny
and it was apparently too out-of-date to cope with ext4.

A newer netinstall CD would have worked, but I decided to try gparted
just to try something new. This fixed the problem instantly. Seems a
great live CD, and certainly came in useful here.

Thanks again to all for the suggestions. 

Now I just need to figure out how to upgrade to the newest version of
Ubuntu. The GUI method isn't working, so I suspect I'll go back to using
CLI tools...

gavin,