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["H. Kirya" <henry AT cmf.co.ug>]

Thanx but using cfdisk would be  a final resort because it would be
destructive partitioning right?
needed to resize the partition without losing data for now

-----Original Message-----
From: Ernesto Celis <celise AT prodigy.net.mx>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: henry AT cmf.co.ug <henry AT cmf.co.ug>
Date: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: cant repartition drive


>> without a floppy drive, i realise i cannot repartiton my
>> hard drive so i have to shelve my dreams of loading basic
>> linux on its own ext3 partition for now
>
>You have a CD-ROM? With a CD-ROM you can boot BL from your
>HD first, then running BL in his RAM-drive use cfdisk to
>repartion you HD and install the necesary packages from the
>CD. You need to install lilo too and put a copy of the BL
>kernel in the /boot directory, in order you can boot BL. Or
>maybe you can get a floppy drive from other PC for a while
>and use it.
>...and I got some other crazy ideas to install BL without a
>floppy drive :)
>
>Usuario Linux #323140
>celiseREMOVETHIS AT prodigy.net.mx