Yes, there is data at risk, which is why I want to use a tool I *know in advance* will not risk data. the person has no experience with this. as for the rest here, to each their own. I have personally found *nothing* hard in dos that I wished to do since 1988, its why I still use it over anything else including LInux.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Karen, > > while parted (the text tool behind gparted) is written > for Linux, the partitions that you edit or create with > it can be anything. There is no need to use a dos tool > to make a partition for DR dos. In particular when the > dos tool is not legally available anyway... As you say > another person will do the partitioning: Gparted is a > very easy to use graphical tool, almost drag and drop > for partitions you could say. And of course nothing of > Linux is visible while you use the tool. Does the other > person have specific experience with partition magic? > If not, I think a text based partition tool is harder > to use than gparted. Some things are just hard in dos. > > On the other hand, if data loss is no problem, you can > use any fdisk style program, such as xfdisk or other > tools included in freedos distros. > > Does the laptop which you want to partition have only > a floppy drive? If so, dos tools can have an advantage > as more user friendly tools are often too big and need > to be run from CD or DVD. > > Regards, Eric > > PS: Here are two different html views of the manual > page of parted. Basically in gparted, all menu items > have buttons instead of commands, but the feature set > itself is of course very similar... > > http://netadmintools.com/html/8parted.man.html > > http://linuxreviews.org/man/parted/index.html.en > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM > Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly > what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app > Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
