Hi,

Thanks for your answer. Why you're using MINOR 2? I usually use the fisrt
partition. Maybe that's the point i'm missing, can you explain, please?

Kind Regards,
Greg

> I had the same problem, that "mkpartfs" does nothing. But the longer way
> works for me:
> --------
> rm 2
> mkpart primary fat32 start end
> mkfs 2 fat32
> set 2 boot on
> --------
> 


Quoting Moritz Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> > Behalf Of Greg Pendler
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:37 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Unattended] Manual disk partitioning (linuxboot, 
> > unattended 4.6) problem
> > 
> > Hi, All.
> > 
> > I'm trying to work with linuxboot CD. When choosing on of the 
> > available 
> > schemes everything works great. But i need from time to time to use 
> > manual partitioning.
> > I saw several posts in this list that point on problems with parted:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > net/msg03112.html
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > net/msg03366.html
> > 
> > I've tried many different ways to create partitions using 
> > parted and i 
> > find it very hard to accomplish.
> > In many cases after issuing "mkpart" or "mkpartfs" command 
> > nothing happens.
> > Trying "mkfs 1 fat32" does not change anything. After all 
> > that i receive 
> > on first screen of XP setup error complaining on SWAP file.
> > 
> > I feel that i'm missing some "magic command", but i can't 
> > find it. Can 
> > someone, please, post an example of commands he's using to manually
> > partition with parted.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Moritz
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
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