On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 20:32 -0500, hbrhodes wrote:
The really important thing i need to do is get around mounting the main
hard drive, so i can resize2fs the main drive. the computer does not
have a cd-rom, just four hard drives (eide kind). so i'm going to try
the grub.conf file and try editing it.... but i don't have any
experience with it really. OR, if i can use GRUB to boot into a folder
on the other computer so i can reinstall. though i would rather resize
It sounds like simply booting the installer image is all you need (so
you can get into rescue mode and do the resize2fs). You can do that
using grub on the same machine:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk
Incidentally, have you tried ext2online? It might save you a lot of
trouble if you're not making a really big size change.
Paul.