At 09:54 AM 12/10/01, you wrote: > The book says I >should use a Windows program named Partition Magic which was on the >CD-ROM drive. I had to install Windows in order to install Partition >Magic. If there were a DOS program on the CD-ROM drive for partitioning >the hard drive for Linux I would not have had to have installed Windows. >Also if there were a Linux partitioning program on the CD-ROM drive >I would not have had to have installed Windows.
Actually, I made a partition magic boot disk to use on a computer with no operating system. First I used a win98 boot/rescue disk. Not win95 mind you, there's difference because w98 uses a ramdrive to load dos into. Then I booted to that. Now the floppy is not where the system is running from, but rather a fictitious drive held in your RAM. Then I put a clean formatted floppy into a: and ran sys a: this copied basic boot files for w98 onto the floppy but no cd drivers. then I added the pqmagic.exe file to it from another floppy I'd put it on when I had partition magic installed on a windows system. I also added mouse.com. Actually I think you can make one of these, called a "rescue disk" from the partition magic software installed on a windows system. Anyway, I have this disk, it's got the dos9 base system on it and pqmagic.exe and I boot to it and run pqmagic and it installs mouse.com and then boom, I'm in and futzing about on any system with 32mb or more of RAM even with an empty hard drive. It's one of the most important tools in my repair kit. -- For a country to be free it's citizens must have a way to defy unjust laws. The new electronic snooping devices are a step in the direction of fascism. Consequently I am appending the following Carnivore Confusion noise to all outgoing email: "Allah; America; Anthrax; arms; bomb; border; capitalist; communicate; customs; death; delivery; economic; imperialist; jihad; plane; PGP; rendevous; trucks; war; weapons; U.S.A.; end transmission
