On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 04:36:35PM +0100, abhimanyu gosain wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a question about the partioning of the on-board flash on a > soekris 4826.I have a 266Mhz,128 MB RAM Soekris 4826 and would like > to make a partition with 32 Mb on the board. Is there any utility i > could use to partition the device . > > Also is there any way to boot these boxex off a USB drive or something > else so that I can do a "fdisk" on it. I cannot use fdisk now as the > node just has a single partiton and it will mess the system up if i > partition it while in the current state.
You can netboot (PXE boot) Linux or *BSD. Then the flash is not in-use, so you can run fdisk on it. Just for example, I create a NetBSD kernel with embedded memory-disk root filesystem, or I netboot the kernel and mount an NFS root, and then I run fdisk. Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 ext 24 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
