[TriLUG] Laptop issue: resizing partition

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Fri Dec 6 21:21:10 EST 2002


Check out lnx-bbc.org  It's a credit card based linux distro that 
supports ext3 and has a full line of tools. I believe that they are 
working on a 2.4.x that has USB support.

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
>>>
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>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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