Fwd: Bug#157003: parted-doc: Docs don't mention parted root disk

[Timshel Knoll]

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Hi Andrew,

A request to update the info doc with up-to-date bootdisk info ...

Cheers,

Timshel

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Subject: Bug#157003: parted-doc: Docs don't mention parted root disk
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:05:54 -0700
From: "Michael Toomim" <address@hidden>
To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <address@hidden>

Package: parted-doc
Version: 1.6.2-1
Severity: normal

The parted docs (info parted) describe a little about how to get boot
 disks:

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- --- Using a Parted Boot Disk
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    If you want run Parted on a machine without GNU/Linux installed, or
you want to resize a root or boot partition, you will need to use a
boot disk.

    A boot disk image is available from:

    `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk/partboot.img'

    To actually create the boot disk, the disk image must be written to
a floppy disk.  In GNU/Linux, this can be done with

     # dd if=partboot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

Or use RAWRITE.EXE under DOS.
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... but they don't mention the fact that you need a ROOT disk in
addition to the boot disk.  When you go to the ftp site listed and
check out the README file, you see the following:


- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- --- ncftp /gnu/parted/bootdisk > less README

If you want run Parted on a machine without GNU/Linux installed, or you
want to resize a root partition, you will need to use a boot disk.

Boot disk images are available from:

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk

You need to download the boot image (partboot.img) that doesn't change
between Parted releases, and a root image (eg: partroot-1.6.1.img).

To create the disks, type (in GNU/Linux)

        # cp partboot.img /dev/fd0
        # cp partroot-1.6.1.img /dev/fd0

Obviously, you need to insert a new disk in the middle ;)

If you DOS/Windows, you can use RAWRITE.EXE.

To use the disks, boot off the partboot disk, and insert the partroot
disk when it asks.
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cheeseskin 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

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