Re: parted question

[Andrew Clausen]

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