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Re: parted question
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: parted question |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:56:15 +1000 |
Thomas Winkler wrote:
> >If your hard disk isn't supported, then:
> >(1) Boot off the Parted boot disk.
> >(2) Insert another (formatted) floppy disk.
> >(3) Mount the floppy disk. ("mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" or
> >"mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy")
>
> And that's the problem. When I try to mount the floppy with vfat filesystem
> ich get a message that vfat is not supported by the kernel on the boot disk.
Yeah, oops, I'll fix the docs.
> And since I don't have a running Linux system at the moment (i trashed my
> partition table... shame on me!!) I'm unable to create an ext2 fs floppy
> since there are no mkfs tools on the floppy as fell.
Parted is a mkfs tool ;-)
# parted /dev/fd0 mklabel loop mkfs 1 ext2
I'll also add this hint in the docs.
Thanks a lot!
Andrew Clausen
- parted question, Thomas Winkler, 2001/04/01
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