Other hard disk...

[Frank Jacobberger]

In the docs for parted, you have the following section:
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If your hard disk isn't supported, then:
(1) Boot off the Parted boot disk.
(2) Insert another (formatted) floppy disk.
(3) Mount the floppy disk. ("mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" or
"mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy")
(4) Copy /sbin/parted to the floppy.  ("cp /sbin/parted /mnt/floppy")
(5) Copy /lib/* to the floppy.  ("cp /lib/* /mnt/floppy)
(6) Unmount the floppy.  ("umount /mnt/floppy")
(7) Find a boot disk that DOES support your hard disk.  (Hint: try looking for
rescue disks from various distributions on big mirror sites)
(8) Boot off your rescue disk.  Mount the disk you copied Parted onto.
(9) Run Parted:
        # cd /mnt/floppy
        # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./parted

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Now my dilemma might fit except I'm running on a hpt (HighPoint) 366 
controller
so normally on boot I have the following setup in lilo.conf:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.4-pre3
      label=2.4.4-pre3
      read-only
      root=/dev/hda1
      append="ide=reverse idebus=66 acpi=no-idle"

Notice that I have to "fool" the controller into seeing /dev/hdc as 
/dev/hda...

In step (8) "Boot off your rescue disk." Doing that normally takes me 
immediately into
/sbin/telinit 5 level boots /dev/hda1...

Don't I want to simply stay on the floppy to execute parted???

Please advise.

Thanks,

Frank