a few questions

[Bruce Noblick]

I have used partition magic with qualified success.  It allowed me to resize
the primary partition and create the LINUX partition and the swap partition.
I tried to use a companion product, boot magic to get a choice of what OS to
boot and it booted windows 98 just fine but hung when I tried to boot LINUX.
This may have been a function of not having the LINUX partition in the first
1024 cylinders on the disk.

Also, in windows, the requested activities are passed to a process that
actually runs in DOS at least for win 98 and there is a shortcut to run
partition magic in DOS.  I suspect that if you look into it, you might be
able to figure out how to do it in DOS with speech.

Enjoy!
Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: a few questions


> Hi:
>
> Partition Magic is very good. It's a product of Power Quest, and I think
> that's the url as well--but I haven't checkked it.
>
> Beware that Power Quest no longer produces a text version of Partition
> Magic, so the newer ones, the ones you can buy, are Windows and no longer
> DOS, as the older pqmagict.exe.
>
> But what about linux' parded? How friendly is that?
>  On Wed, 20 Jun 2001,
> Raul A. Gallegos
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, answers are below.
> >
> > >1.  I know how to check the date and time, but how do I change them in
Linux?
> >
> > As root the format is: # date mmddhhMM
> > As a basic starter.  Basically it's date followed by 2 digit month, 2
digit date, 2 digit hour (24) format, 2 digit minute.  You can add more to
include the seconds
> > and year if you want but I doubt you need that.  If you type #
date --help |more  You will get an explanation of the format.  Date is
really a neat command.
> >
> > >2.  If Linux is the only OS on a box, and the hardware clock is set to
local time, will Linux automatically adjust it twice a year when
appropriate? Will this be
> > done by default, or do I need to change something in order to make it
happen?
> >
> > It will be done by deafault.  I use a program called timeconfig to set
the local time zone.
> >
> > >3.  I will be installing Linux on a sighted friend's PC.  He has a 25
Gb hard disk entirely filled by a FAT 32 partition.  What utility can I use
to split this partition
> > to make room for Linux, and where can I get it from?
> >
> > First off back up any data on the hard drive if you don't want to risk
losing it.  the one I recommend is partition magic but I don't have current
info on where
> > to get it. Sorry.
> >
> > >Thanks of course in advance for any help.
> >
> > Your welcome.
> >
> > >Greg
> >
> > Raul
> >
> >
> > Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net
> > msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055
> > http://www.asmodean.net
> >
> >
> >
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