Sorry to add to the collection of dumb questions, BUT ...

My computer has one SATA array (Intel ICH5r RAID - yes, this is the infamous ASUS p4p800!) , and a separate 13Gb HDD which I have configured for Fedora Core 3 with a 11 GB Linux ext3 partition and a 3 GB swap partition

I want to create a 1GB FAT32 partition on the Linux drive so I can copy files from the RAID array (which Linux cannot detect) to the new partition so that FC3 can access them.

I tried parted. The problem is that this requires the Linux drive to be unmounted. But parted resides on that drive. So how can I run it to create a new partition on that drive if the drive is unmounted??? I cannot find out how to run it from a floppy or CD, or any other means. And I cannot run DOS fdisk because it cannot recognize the Linux partitions.

HELP

"I tried parted. The problem is that this requires the Linux drive to be unmounted. But parted resides on that drive."

Boot a live Cd and run parted from the liveCD.

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Steve Stites

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a "live CD"?

See: http://slax.linux-live.org/

"Forgive my ignorance, but what is a "live CD"?"

You can boot your Red Hat installation CD and select rescue mode. This will give you a Linux system running from the install CD.

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Steve Stites

Thanks for the help. In the end it was all for nothing, as parted refused to touch the partitions with "Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled".

So I scrubbed the drive, reformatted it, used DOS Fdisk to make the partitions and formatted them with Disk Druid. It seems to work OK