a few questions

[John Covici]

But when the DOS version runs, its that weird kind of DOS gui -- they
no l onger have a text version -- the last one was 4.01.

"Bruce Noblick" <bnoblick at columbus.rr.com> writes:

> 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.
> 

-- 
         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com