Re: parted boot CD - SOLVED again :)

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:27, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > apt-get install parted? > > > > > > Why can't you just run it in single user mode? > > > > DOH! Well, running it in single worked... wit

Re: parted boot CD - SOLVED

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
Alex Malinovich said: > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: >> >> apt-get install parted? >> >> Why can't you just run it in single user mode? > > DOH! Well, running it in single worked... with one minor problem... it > doesn't appear to support reiserfs! :( Well, I guess that kind of

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-05 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: > > apt-get install parted? > > > > Why can't you just run it in single user mode? > > DOH! Well, running it in single worked... with one minor problem... it > doesn't appear to support reiserfs!

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of > > my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I > > have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I f

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:43:17PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > > partition.) > > did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap par

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my > systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have > that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had > parted inst

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
> I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > partition.) did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap partitions? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my > systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have > that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had > parted inst

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of > my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I > have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy > that had parted installed and trie

parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had parted installed and tried using mkisofs to convert it to a CD image, but it doesn't