Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> 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.
[snip]
Ron....again, not really so. The same shell script and .img
files (the .img files contain Partition Magic 5.0 instead of
4.0 of course) are on the 5.0 Partition Magic CD as were on
the 4.0 Partition Magic CD. Whoever gave you that
understanding either did not have, or had not explored the 5.0
version CD, nor had they read the 5.0 manual.
As to Boot Magic, no it does not install on a floppy, but then
it wouldn't be very useful there anyway. But it does install
and run just fine on my DR DOS partition at the begining of my
SCSI 0 drive with absolutely no help whatsoever from
Microsoft.
Alan
