RE: resizing root??

[Erick Calder]

Andrew,

ok... after a lot frustration I finally managed to boot off a floppy.  I put
parted-boot on a separate floppy, put it in the drive and did:

# mount /mnt/floppy
# cd /mnt/floppy
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
# ./parted-boot /dev/hda

now I get the following:

> Using: /dev/hda
> Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

now what am I doing wrong?

thx - e r i c k

-----Original Message-----
From:   Andrew Clausen [mailto:address@hidden
Sent:   Friday, October 12, 2001 2:02 PM
To:     Erick Calder
Cc:     Larry Williams; address@hidden
Subject:        Re: resizing root??

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:21:14PM -0700, Erick Calder wrote:
> > MY PROBLEM: is that parted, and all the libs it requires:
> >
> > # rpm -qR parted
> > ld-linux.so.2
> > libc.so.6
> > libncurses.so.5
> > libreadline.so.4.1
> > libuuid.so.1
> > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
> > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
> >
> > are MUCH bigger than I can fit in a floppy, and, as you can see I can't
> > make a temporary partition that I could mount while booted up from
floppy
> > so I could put parted there...
> >
> > suggestions anyone??

Use the parted-boot RPM.

Or compile yourself.

        ./configure --disable-nls --without-readline --disabel-shared

Andrew