[geeks] QEMU image file to hard disk partition?

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> The pondering about OS"s has me curious. I haven't been able to install
> Xenix on the laptop I bought to run it on due to the floppy drive being
> dead. The machine does boot nicely from a cdrom however...
>
> 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?

Have you tried a combination of linux's own fdisk and gpartd?

The Ultimate Boot CD should have some minimal Linux distros on it as well
as gpartd.

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Michael Parson
Austin, TX
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