unable to use parted from partroot diskette

[Ralph Wesser]

I'm trying to resize my root partition on Red Hat Linux 2.4.18-24.8.0 to 
make room for a Windows partition.  So, I created partboot and partroot 
diskettes using mkpart.  Using the print option of parted (version 
1.4.24) from my harddrive booted system I get:

> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031     51.679  primary   ext3        boot
> 2         51.680  37652.343  primary   ext3
> 3      37652.344  38161.757  primary   linux-swap

However, When I use parted (version 1.6.4) from my diskette booted 
system, I get

> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
> Disk label type: loop
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.000  38166.679  fat16   

I found a posting with a similar problem, but I could find any 
resolution posted. Any help to resolve this puzzle would be appreciaited.