Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?

[Josh Rehman <java.josh@verizon.net>]

Thanks all for the good advice. Knoppix was an excellent suggestion, 
however it doesn't run on my laptop - not even in "failsafe" or "expert" 
mode. "failsafe" gets the farthest. So now I'm trying to fix this problem.

I found http://mezzo.net/~peter/lindellinst.html which indicates "I 
installed a fresh kernel 2.4.21 with acpi patch,and had to exclude 
0x800-0x8ff from pcmcia to avoid a frozen kernel". I'm not sure how to 
exclude what I assume to be either memory addresses or IO range. A 
kernel parameter typed at the boot: prompt perhaps? I have a message in 
to the author asking for clarification.

Thanks for your help,
Josh