I have used partition magic with qualified success. It allowed me to resize the primary partition and create the LINUX partition and the swap partition. I tried to use a companion product, boot magic to get a choice of what OS to boot and it booted windows 98 just fine but hung when I tried to boot LINUX. This may have been a function of not having the LINUX partition in the first 1024 cylinders on the disk. Also, in windows, the requested activities are passed to a process that actually runs in DOS at least for win 98 and there is a shortcut to run partition magic in DOS. I suspect that if you look into it, you might be able to figure out how to do it in DOS with speech. Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:52 PM Subject: Re: a few questions > Hi: > > Partition Magic is very good. It's a product of Power Quest, and I think > that's the url as well--but I haven't checkked it. > > Beware that Power Quest no longer produces a text version of Partition > Magic, so the newer ones, the ones you can buy, are Windows and no longer > DOS, as the older pqmagict.exe. > > But what about linux' parded? How friendly is that? > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, > Raul A. Gallegos > wrote: > > > Hi, answers are below. > > > > >1. I know how to check the date and time, but how do I change them in Linux? > > > > As root the format is: # date mmddhhMM > > As a basic starter. Basically it's date followed by 2 digit month, 2 digit date, 2 digit hour (24) format, 2 digit minute. You can add more to include the seconds > > and year if you want but I doubt you need that. If you type # date --help |more You will get an explanation of the format. Date is really a neat command. > > > > >2. If Linux is the only OS on a box, and the hardware clock is set to local time, will Linux automatically adjust it twice a year when appropriate? Will this be > > done by default, or do I need to change something in order to make it happen? > > > > It will be done by deafault. I use a program called timeconfig to set the local time zone. > > > > >3. I will be installing Linux on a sighted friend's PC. He has a 25 Gb hard disk entirely filled by a FAT 32 partition. What utility can I use to split this partition > > to make room for Linux, and where can I get it from? > > > > First off back up any data on the hard drive if you don't want to risk losing it. the one I recommend is partition magic but I don't have current info on where > > to get it. Sorry. > > > > >Thanks of course in advance for any help. > > > > Your welcome. > > > > >Greg > > > > Raul > > > > > > Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net > > msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055 > > http://www.asmodean.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
