Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?
At Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:21:52 -0400,
David Z Maze wrote:
>
> Josh Rehman <java.josh@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > I would like to dual boot my machine, and need to exec parted
> > to do this. However, parted isn't on the Debian 3.0 distro
> > CDs that I have, and gnu only provides floppy images - and my
> > laptop doesn't have a floppy drive (nor an IR port...beware,
> > prospective buyers of the Dell 5150!).
> >
> > A bootable CD with parted on it would do the trick. However,
> > I'm not too sure how to make one with parted on it.
>
> I've used the CD at http://www.systemrescuecd.org/ with some
> success (in my case, to help recover from a test run of the new
> debian-installer). It includes parted, among other useful
> tools for the case where you're booting off a CD because you
> can't do anything else.
>
> (My new laptop didn't come with a floppy drive, incidentally,
> and I'm fine with that. It does have a CD burner, though.
> These days floppies just have no useful capacity and one in two
> seems to want to go from the package straight into the
> garbage...)
The OP could try booting from a USB FDD, if the laptop BIOS
supports it.
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