a few questions

Victor Tsaran tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl
Sat Jun 23 09:06:55 EDT 2001


Yes, this is true about Bootmagic. It doesn't like if the partition is
beyond the 1024 cyllinder boundary. I think this is an outfashioned approach
and therefore I switched back to LILO. LILO is happy with both Win2K and
Redhat Linux.
Best regards,
Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Noblick" <bnoblick at columbus.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: a few questions


> 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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