El mié, 09-03-2005 a las 16:26 -0800, bruce escribió: > hi... > > i'm trying to figure out how to create the required floppies for using > parted on the '/' partition. > > various sites i've seen have stated that i need partboot.img, and > partroot-1.6.6.img. i can find partboot.img, but i can't seem to find > partroot-1.6.6.img. > i'm trying to create the required floppies using windows/rawwrite to create > the linux floppies, so i can make the partition changes... does anyone have > a pointer to a site that has the partroot-1.6.6.img file. > AKAIK, both are at the same place... The main page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html The packages, main site and mirror sites: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html The issue looks like a bit neglected, since when they refer to partroot-1.6.6.img they want mean partroot-1.6.6.tar.gz; this tarball contains inside it a single file named as parted.img (the called "disk 2" or "root disk"); this one exceeds the 3 MB size. The documentation I found seems to be outdated, wherever I looked for, since it talks about a single step, equivalent to the one for the first disk (partboot.img, which weighs exactly 1.4MB), in order to create both diskettes, without keeping in mind that the second one is much bigger than 1.4MB. To proceed with this .img file I managed to my own (I even don't know if that can be considered such as proper way) by using the dd command, so finally I got one boot disk for "the first disk", and three disks for "the second disk". Sorry, but at this momment I wouldn't know how to do this in any Windows... I suppose things there won't be so flexible... > the sites that i've seen that have the partroot-1.6.6.gz file arent able to > be opened by winzip.. using a gnuzip app doesn't seem to work either, as it > complains about the format... i've tried looking at various sites with no > luck. > > any suggestions/thought/comments regarding the file.... > > parted allows you to change the all partitions of the harddrive, except the > root drive. for this, you apparently need to have a bootdisk! > The man page for parted comes clear and brief, I would recommend you. Here a larger documentation: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html You also could to boot up with a Live-CD Linux, and try things (such as make those bootable diskettes, man parted, etc...) over there. > thanks > > bruce > > I didn't understand your final target, but let me give you a prior short advise: if you are trying to resize ext2/3 FS partitions, matched to Fedora by default, AFAIK parted will not be enough. Cheers
