From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-083.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.83] helo=toccata.grg.afb.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15f4RS-0007KS-00 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 19:04:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.grg.afb.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f86J3DD06318 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:03:13 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.grg.afb.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:03:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: a few things In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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.