a few things

[Janina Sajka]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> As mentioned in another post your bios *must* be able to read the portion
> of the hard drive containing /boot. If your bios doesn't recognize the
> entire drive, then you will want a small partition near the begining of
> the drive. Making a drive like this into a dual boot situation might be
> tough. I believe it is doable, but I haven't managed.

I have done this a lot, but only with Partition Magic which is not free. 
Furthermore, it is now only sold for Windows. So, I'm unlikely to keep 
doing this myself, as I have continued to use their old DOS product to 
accomplish this kind of thing--and I've now moved to the ext3 file system, 
which the old DOS Partition Magic doesn't, and never will support.

The reason this has worked so well for me--the feature in Partition Magic 
which makes this work, and the feature seemingly missing in Part Ed is the 
ability to move a partition. Part Ed will resize, but I do not see where 
it will literally move a p[artition left or right.