[geeks] QEMU image file to hard disk partition?

Sheldon T. Hall shel at artell.net
Wed Sep 25 17:33:23 CDT 2013


William Barnett-Lewis said ...

> What I'm pondering is finding some bootable OS (linux?) with 
> a partition manager that I can use to divy up it's 1.4 gb 
> drive into a ~30 mb dos
> 3.3  partition, 2 ~500 mb Xenix / & /usr partitions (with the old id
> numbers) and whatever left as a dos extended partition. Is 
> anyone familier with a partition program that can do that?

I think the partition manager that comes with Puppy Linux 4.3.1 (an old
version) will do that.  I suggest that version because it's only 100 MB or
so, and it runs nicely from CD-ROM.

The ISO can be found at ...
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-4.3.1/

-Shel


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