Fatal: Out of memory

[Evin Robertson]

I'm using Parted 1.4.11 from a bootdisk I made.  I'm trying to load
disk images for windows machine via a novell network.  I'd like to use
Parted to manage making the partition bootable, and then dropping a
tar.gz on top for the OS and applications.  I'm mostly following
instructions from the user guide's Disk Imaging chapter.

So I used win95dos fdisk /fprmt to make a 85 MB fat32 partition and
another larger partition to write the image to.  Formatted and filled
up the 85 MB partition, which now boots win95dos.

I booted from my floppy, mounted the larger partition, and did:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/win95.img bs=1M count=87
parted /mnt/image mklabel msdos mkpart primary fat 0 86
parted /mnt/image cp /dev/hda 1 1

which seems to have to have worked fine.  I copied the image to the
novell server, unmounted /mnt, and had Parted delete all the
partitions.  Then:

/ # parted -s /dev/hda mklabel msdos mkpartfs primary fat 0 4121
Warning: The filesystem is going to be too big for FAT16, so FAT32 will...
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
/ # parted -s /dev/hda cp /novell/share1/s/lgho/win95.img 1 1
Fatal: Out of memory.


It works if I make the new partition the same size as the image, but
then it'll give me an Out of memory error if I try to resize it beyond
a couple hundred megs.

Has anyone seen a problem like this before?  Is parted unable to
resize unusually small FAT32 partitions to larger ones?

I obviously don't have GDB on my boot floppy, or I'd try to debug this
myself.  (My experience is that something gets upset if I try to munge
partitions on a drive on which I have a mounted partition, so
installing linux and running GDB that way doesn't seem easy).


Alternatively, is there another way to do the equivalent of "sys c:"
from linux?  That's the only real point of using the small fat32
partition I made.

Also, is there an easy way to tell parted to use the entire disk for a
partition, so I don't need extra magic to detect the disk size from my
script?

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