a few things

[Holmes, Steve]

I guess the only other option would be to repartition the drive from scratch
but then you lose all your data and have to reinstall the distro all over
again. <yuck> sounds like windows to me:)

One other question, what are the advantages of Ext3 and who is using it now
days?  I don't recall seeing it mentioned in slackware 8.0 either.

-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:03 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: a few things


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.



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