Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?

[Ron Stodden]

Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> Sevatio....not really so.  The procedures that install
> Partition Magic on two floppies from a running Linux system
> install a bootable dos environment on the first floppy of the
> two floppy set.  The dos used is not Microsoft MS-DOS but
> instead is a version of Corel's DR DOS.

PM 4.0 worked like this, but PM 5.0 does not.  As I understand it you
can only install the PM CD into a Windows system.  Having done that,
you can generate the two floppy rescue set.   The first will have a
bootable MSDOS on it, created under your Windows licence for that
machine, and therefore can be used to maintain partitions on a
non-Windows system.

The same philosophy applies to Boot Magic, also on the PM CD.

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