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Peter Humphrey posted <43F5AC5E.9060001@××××××××××.uk>, excerpted below, |
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on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:58:38 +0000: |
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> I don't mind using whatever tools are available for the initial partitioning |
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> scheme, but this box gets treated pretty much as a development machine |
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> would, with partitions moving up and down and being copied between disks far |
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> more often than lots of people would find comfortable! |
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> A nice, easy, graphical program like Partition Magic is just the thing for |
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> that. I don't have to have a Windows partition to run it from, as version 8 |
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> can boot from its own CD. That's a DOS version of course, so pretty |
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> partition labels are out, but they can easily be changed with tunefs later. |
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I don't know if the new Mandriva still has it or not, and if so the name |
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may well have changed, but back when I was running Mandrake (8.x, 9.x), |
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the first CD of their install disk had disk-drake on it, to help with the |
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partitioning of the drive during install. As I mentioned, it has a very |
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pretty graphical interface that any Partition Magic user should take to |
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immediately. It's only a CD image's worth of download, and the CD is |
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bootable, so it might be worth trying out. |
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It may also be possible to get the RPM to run on a Gentoo system, but I'm |
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not sure what sort of dependency issues one would have to tackle, first. |
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Maybe I'll try it someday and see. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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