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From: Igor Gueths <igueths@attbi.com>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: partition magic
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:22:28 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203311118160.265-100000@igueths> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000401c1d884$ceb781a0$6701a8c0@twmi.rr.com>

Hi. You want to use Ext2, for this is the default filesystem that Linux
uses. For the number of cylindars, Partition Magic will usually set this
for you as far as I know. The only problem I have noticed with the program
is that if you re-size your windows partition and re-start the machine,
Windows stil reports the filesize as if you never re-sized the partition.
Provided you have unallocated space on your hd without any filesystem on
it, just install something like Debian and use Fdisk to create your ext2
partition. In my case, I nuked windows and now have a linux-only system.
If you want to set up a duel-boot system, you can try using partition
magic to create the Ext2 filesystem, but I can't garantee that it will
work.

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Jared wrote:

> Hello I have a copy of partition magic 7.0 When I go into a wiserd and slect
> install linux as an option it gives me an x2 or some type of file system
> like that. Do I want this as a seporate partition on the same fat32 drive
> with windows 98 or should I just partition another drive chunk off tell it
> it is going to boot win mellenium, then install linux since I've heard it
> can use fat32? Also if I use what partition magic gives me how will the
> partitioning part of installation go? How can I tell if I will be on the
> write number of silinders? Thanks for any help with this.
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Jared
 ` Geoff Shang
   ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Memory Considerations Jared
     ` Geoff Shang
       ` Jared
         ` Thomas Ward
         ` Georgina Joyce
           ` Jared
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Jared
                 ` Georgina Joyce
         ` Janina Sajka
     ` Janina Sajka
 ` Igor Gueths [this message]
 ` partition magic Alex Snow
   ` Georgina Joyce
     ` Alex Snow
       ` Georgina Joyce
       ` Jared
         ` Thomas D. Ward
           ` Igor Gueths
         ` Shaun Oliver
           ` Igor Gueths
     ` Jared
 ` Janina Sajka

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