This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of > my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I > have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy > that had parted installed and tried using mkisofs to convert it to a > CD image, but it doesn't boot. I get an error about running out of > data while loading the kernel. I've tried copying over parted to a cd, > booting from my Woody CD, and then mounting the CD with parted on it. > But I get lots of missing libraries. I've looked all over the net for > a bootable CD image with parted on it, and short of downloading a ~500 > MB RedHat rescue CD, I haven't found anything. Any suggestions on how > to best go about this? I'd like to use the floppy images from the > official parted site (www.gnu.org/software/parted) but as there's two > of them I'm not quite sure how I'd go about making them into a > bootable CD. Any suggestions? TIA. > > -Alex apt-get install parted? Why can't you just run it in single user mode? Taken from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ : Currently, Parted only runs under GNU/Linux. If you don't have GNU/Linux, then a boot disk image is available on all mirrors in the /gnu/parted/bootdisk directory. You are running linux on this box, right? Steve -- BOFH excuse #305: IRQ-problems with the Un-Interruptible-Power-Supply
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