Figured out to use fdisk and copy down the partitions.

My printer is a sort of WinPrinter, a Xerox personal
laser.  It is rather picky about how it can print; can't
print from Opera directly, but if I transfer what I want
to print to word processor can print from there.

Plan to see if I can load the printer driver into an
extension of Wine.  If not will have to drop files to
print to a shared area and print from the other os.

Got the printer cheap, and it otherwise works well.
Had I known to wait a couple of months I could have
gotten a Lexmark one even cheaper that probably
would have worked under Linux.  But my old Epson
was dead and needing  decent burial.

When I get around to some networking I'll be able
to print through another box anyway.

Next adventure, after mounting other partitions, see
if Red Hat 7.3 recognized a parallel port tape drive
for backup (Tecmar/Iomega DittoMax)  If so, fine,
if not, will have to burn backup CDs.

Maybe it's appropriate that the most useful book
last night was "Linux! I Didn't Know You Could Do
That...." with a monkey and banana on the cover.
Has a CD with some DOS tools for access to
Linux partitions from other os.   Will check Web
for newer versions.

Choppy

At 05:59 AM 5/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Why not just use fdisk and print the partition table.
>
>Jeff


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