creating a boot disk for using parted on the root '/' partition...

[Steve Buehler]

At 06:26 PM 3/9/2005, bruce wrote:
>i'm trying to figure out how to create the required floppies for using
>parted on the '/' partition.
>
>various sites i've seen have stated that i need partboot.img, and
>partroot-1.6.6.img. i can find partboot.img, but i can't seem to find
>partroot-1.6.6.img.
>
>i'm trying to create the required floppies using windows/rawwrite to create
>the linux floppies, so i can make the partition changes... does anyone have
>a pointer to a site that has the partroot-1.6.6.img file.
>
>the sites that i've seen that have the partroot-1.6.6.gz file arent able to
>be opened by winzip.. using a gnuzip app doesn't seem to work either, as it
>complains about the format... i've tried looking at various sites with no
>luck.

I googled for partroot-1.6.6.gz and found the following site at the top of 
the list:
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/parted/bootdisk/
I downloaded the file and winzip 9 opened the .gz file just fine.

Steve