Has anyone ever used part.exe? Also known as Ranish Partition Manager.
http://come.to/ranish -> http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
It was at version 2.38 Beta 1.9 as of Sept. 21, 1999, but unfortunately
shareware. Version 2.37 was the last freeware version, with source code
in the public domain. I found it in Mandrake6.1, under /bonus/part.
Fips also gave me a headache, but part worked pretty well, it not only
had it's own boot manager, but could also work in gui mode, with color
codes to show Linux, Unix and Win32/16 partitions.
The last Partition Magic I met was 4.0, and it choked on my hda4 ext2fs
partition. It reported my 1 Gig ext2fs hdb as 66 Meg. I used the same
version a year ago to resize my FAT32 hda to install freesco. It was a
breeze. I wonder what PM version Caldera is using? I did see a 5.0
version yesterday.
At 10:12 PM 04/06/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I don't know if it matters if linux/NT ang i install mo. But i tried
>using Partition Magic, forgot the version though, to split a FAT16
>partition to make space for NT installation.
>
>Yan
>
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Ronneil Camara wrote:
>
>> FIPS is nice. But if your existing data on Win95/98 is fragmented, then you
>> will have to defragment it. Ang tagal, grabe. Anyways, I've tried it on a
>> machine with a clean win98 installation, and fips found out that my last
>> sectors/tracks were free. But you will have to manually input the start of
>> block, AFAIR.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Federico Sevilla III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:43 PM
>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Subject: Re: [plug] Reconfiguring Win98 partition
>> >
>> >
>> > Quoting "Elfredy V. Cadapan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > >FIPS... I think it's in the tools subdir on most distribs. fips.exe
>> >
>> > I tried FIPS but I was terribly dissatisfied. I ended up just
>> > deleting the
>> > whole thing and redoing my partitioning. I do not know how
>> > stable the parted
>> > utility is. I don't know if its current state allows you to
>> > work on FAT32
>> > partitions, either. But it's probably worth a shot. You'll
>> > also have to run
>> > this from a Linux bootdisk. Makes it a little more
>> > complicated, but it might do
>> > the trick if FIPS doesn't. If FIPS cuts it, then I guess it
>> > should do. It looks
>> > like it could be more convenient to use. :)
>> >
>> > If you want to check out parted you can look in Freshmeat
>> > <http://www.freshmeat.net/> to see where you can get it. :)
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Federico Sevilla III
>
>Ryan F. Go
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