Re: [SLUG] linux floppy disk

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 23:50:39 EDT


On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, William Coulter wrote:

> --- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > So you want to boot from a floppy and then run fdisk? Any rescue floppy
> > (to pull one from my nether regions, Tom's Root-Boot aka tomsrtbt)
> > should do that no problem.

> No, no, no. I don't want to run fdisk, but a linux equivalent. When I
> have installed a linux distro, I just use what the install recommend to
> me.

The/a Linux partitioning tool is /sbin/fdisk. Same name as FDISK.EXE
(sorta) but different program. Rescue disks may have it in a different
place.

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