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Re: parted boot CD



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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