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.
>
Not true; if you have PM 5 check the readme files on the disk (or
something to that effect), it explains how to do this from a linux only
system. I have Win98, Win2k and Linux on the same computer, so I just
use the Win98 install; no need to use the floppies (they are slower
cause they *are* floppies).
Mike
