[TriLUG] Laptop issue: resizing partition

[Roy Vestal]

Andrew Perrin wrote:

>Greetings-
>
>I've got a new (to me) Vaio laptop on which I want to dual-boot Win98 and
>debian. I can boot to the debian install CD, but what I'd *like* to do is
>resize the partition on the hard drive first so I can install debian
>without having to reinstall windows.  Unfortunately, debian's boot cd
>doesn't have parted on it, so I can't go that route.
>
>I downloaded Acronis's "DiskEditor" as a free Windows disk partition
>editor, but I'm a bit scared of it - there's no obvious way to simply
>change the size of the partition. I can edit begin and end cylinder, head,
>and sector, but I don't know the right way to calculate where these should
>begin and end for a, say, 3GB partition.
>
>Has anyone used this before, or can anyone suggest an alternative
>direction to go to resize the partition? (gnu's parted boot disk doesn't
>work because this thing has a USB floppy.)
>
>Thanks.
>
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Andrew,
It's been a while since I worked on a Sony, but IIRC, there is a setting 
in the bios to force a boot off the FDD.

HTH