On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: > 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? DOH! Well, running it in single worked... with one minor problem... it doesn't appear to support reiserfs! :( Well, I guess that kind of changes the nature of my problem now... Any suggestions on how to resize a reiser partition? -Alex
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