Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:25:13AM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote:
> 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. For the future, I think it might
[...]
You can make a bootable CD from a bootable floppy image by using the
-b option of mkisofs. See man mkisofs for all of the details.
HTH
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