On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Christian <christian08@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I have been using an old MS-DOS diskette in order to be able to use fdisk to set a specific partition active on a harddrive. Any other alternative that will do the same and that can be run from an MS-DOS diskette? Ranish Partition Manager works very well for me on a system that runs both Linux and WinXP Pro. <http://www.ranish.com/part/>. Far more capability than with Microsoft fdisk. I use the screen character-based GUI but it can be operated from the command line as well. I presume FreeDOS and OpenDOS have fdisk or equivalent command-line utilities. <http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/HomePage>, <http://www.deltasoft.com/opendos.htm> There's an updated Microsoft fdisk here for partitions larger than 64 gigabytes. <http://download.microsoft.com/download/Win98/Update/8266R/W98/EN-US/263044USA8.EXE>. I haven't used it so proceed cautiously. There are versions for human languages other than English as well. If booting from a CD instead is an option for you, there are many rescue live CDs and the task could be performed from your flavor of Linux booted from a CD rather than the hard drive. Or FreeDOS, for that matter, can be booted from a CD. One of the more popular rescue CDs is the Ultimate Boot CD. <http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/>. The major advantage of using a bootable CD is that you can fit more utilities on one than on a floppy disk. Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list