partition magic

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Sun Mar 31 14:09:16 EST 2002


Well, let's get one thing straight: There's no such thing as a "fat32
drive".  There is a fat32 partition though.  What you want is to make a new
partition, and when asked, use exf2 as the filesystem.
Alex Snow
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From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com>
To: "Speakup Mailing List (E-mail)" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 2:22 AM
Subject: partition magic


> Hello I have a copy of partition magic 7.0 When I go into a wiserd and
slect
> install linux as an option it gives me an x2 or some type of file system
> like that. Do I want this as a seporate partition on the same fat32 drive
> with windows 98 or should I just partition another drive chunk off tell it
> it is going to boot win mellenium, then install linux since I've heard it
> can use fat32? Also if I use what partition magic gives me how will the
> partitioning part of installation go? How can I tell if I will be on the
> write number of silinders? Thanks for any help with this.
>
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