[TriLUG] Laptop issue: resizing partition

[Andrew Perrin]

Roy,

Thanks - actually I can boot off the floppy fine, but once linux loads it
stops running, because the floppy is USB-based.  That means I can't load
the root disk after booting to a rescue disk.

There is a solution, though: I can boot to debian's bootable install CD
using the CD-ROM, which is ATAPI/PCMCIA so it's built into the stock
kernel.  That's what I'll do if power is ever restored at home.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Roy Vestal wrote:

> Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 
> >Greetings-
> >
> >I've got a new (to me) Vaio laptop on which I want to dual-boot Win98 and
> >debian. I can boot to the debian install CD, but what I'd *like* to do is
> >resize the partition on the hard drive first so I can install debian
> >without having to reinstall windows.  Unfortunately, debian's boot cd
> >doesn't have parted on it, so I can't go that route.
> >
> >I downloaded Acronis's "DiskEditor" as a free Windows disk partition
> >editor, but I'm a bit scared of it - there's no obvious way to simply
> >change the size of the partition. I can edit begin and end cylinder, head,
> >and sector, but I don't know the right way to calculate where these should
> >begin and end for a, say, 3GB partition.
> >
> >Has anyone used this before, or can anyone suggest an alternative
> >direction to go to resize the partition? (gnu's parted boot disk doesn't
> >work because this thing has a USB floppy.)
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
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> >Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> >Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> >clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
> >
> >
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> Andrew,
> It's been a while since I worked on a Sony, but IIRC, there is a setting 
> in the bios to force a boot off the FDD.
> 
> HTH
> 
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