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Hi All, which is the best tool for partitioning, as I forgot to bring in my copy of PartitionMagic(DOH!!) and need to resize an NTFS partition today. I'm using XP Pro at the moment. I wish to resize a 38GB partition, primary, to 20GB and use the rest for a Linux Install(CentOS 4-3). Cheers. Mark Sargent. P.S. I can't use my normal account whilst at work, so subscribed from my work a...

...ompatible with ext2... Any user who wishes to un-journal a file system can do so easily... I am assuming un-journalling is the equivalent of converting it to ext2. How do you do this? I haven't been able to find anything. The reason I want to do this is so I can modify my partitions with PartitionMagic and PM doesn't support ext3 as of yet (http://www.powerquest.com/support/primus/id1375.cfm). ...Stephen

Hello I think syslinux is great and just downloaded 2.00 and will start using it in a couple of days. 1. We use an IDE<->compactflash-adapter in our target-system. We use a USB-compact-flash reader/writer(SanDisk/ImageMate) on our linux-host to write the flash. It appears in the Linux-system as '/dev/sda', and we can use syslinux and mount for copying kernel, syslinux.cfg and our

...or attached to the > > W2K machine? This would prevent changing the CF card while > > W2k is booted, > > though ... > > This is same problem. It is the way SysLinux tries to gain access to > 'raw'-device that makes the problem. I mean, when other tools like > PartitionMagic can, it should be possible... > > > > > I think there's something wrong with accessing the MBR in the > > CF reader, > > and so syslinux fails. > > No, it gets a permission error. There is a message saying > that a program > tried to gain access to th...

...> It would still be good to know the correct geometry of the HDD image. > If you can boot the image from the .ISO and get a DOS CLI (maybe by > hitting F8 really quickly as PC-DOS loads!) then you could perhaps run a > DOS util to find the geometry. Such utils might be GRUB4DOS or > PartitionMagic or something else. > > Also, if these are thin clients without HDDs, or if you want to have > some fun, you could SAN-boot the firmware image using gPXE's AoE or > iSCSI support! Heh. > > - Shao Miller > > -----Original Message----- > From: syslinux-bounces at zytor....