XP and Linux

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, James Knott wrote:

> John Wildberger wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 September 2004 08:33 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> 
>>> There would have been no need to move that new partition. To make linux
>>> happy with shifted partitions one boots from a rescue disk and edits the
>>> relevant scripts (usually /etc/fstab on the root volume) and the boot
>>> script (/etc/lilo.conf or equivalent). This makes linux aware of the new
>>> setup without needing to move anything. What would you have done if you
>>> had not had a tool that moves partitions around ?
>>> 
>>> Peter
>> 
>> Rescue disks are fine if you have a setup that permits the use of them. My 
>> system is a ThinkPad with only an external USB floppy. So far I have not 
>> been able to use an external floppy for booting. Maybe someone has some 
>> experience with this.
>> Also, recent distros have a size that excceeds the storage capacity of a 
>> normal floppy.
>> On the subject of USB floppies, does anyone know how to format them for a 
>> Linux fs .
>
> You can use rescue CDs with the ThinkPad.  As for formatting, I haven't tried 
> with a USB floppy, but I think you could use the mkfs commands.

An example of a rescue disk on steroids is knoppix ;-)

Peter
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