At Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:21:52 -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > > Josh Rehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to dual boot my machine, and need to exec parted > > to do this. However, parted isn't on the Debian 3.0 distro > > CDs that I have, and gnu only provides floppy images - and my > > laptop doesn't have a floppy drive (nor an IR port...beware, > > prospective buyers of the Dell 5150!). > > > > A bootable CD with parted on it would do the trick. However, > > I'm not too sure how to make one with parted on it. > > I've used the CD at http://www.systemrescuecd.org/ with some > success (in my case, to help recover from a test run of the new > debian-installer). It includes parted, among other useful > tools for the case where you're booting off a CD because you > can't do anything else. > > (My new laptop didn't come with a floppy drive, incidentally, > and I'm fine with that. It does have a CD burner, though. > These days floppies just have no useful capacity and one in two > seems to want to go from the package straight into the > garbage...)
The OP could try booting from a USB FDD, if the laptop BIOS supports it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]