I guess the only other option would be to repartition the drive from scratch but then you lose all your data and have to reinstall the distro all over again. <yuck> sounds like windows to me:) One other question, what are the advantages of Ext3 and who is using it now days? I don't recall seeing it mentioned in slackware 8.0 either. -----Original Message----- From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:03 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: a few things On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Kirk Wood wrote: > As mentioned in another post your bios *must* be able to read the portion > of the hard drive containing /boot. If your bios doesn't recognize the > entire drive, then you will want a small partition near the begining of > the drive. Making a drive like this into a dual boot situation might be > tough. I believe it is doable, but I haven't managed. I have done this a lot, but only with Partition Magic which is not free. Furthermore, it is now only sold for Windows. So, I'm unlikely to keep doing this myself, as I have continued to use their old DOS product to accomplish this kind of thing--and I've now moved to the ext3 file system, which the old DOS Partition Magic doesn't, and never will support. The reason this has worked so well for me--the feature in Partition Magic which makes this work, and the feature seemingly missing in Part Ed is the ability to move a partition. Part Ed will resize, but I do not see where it will literally move a p[artition left or right. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
