Re: repartitioning without destroying current partition
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:10:00 -0700 (MST), Gerald John Lapeyre, Jr. wrote:
>
> All the linux distributions (that I have seen, rh,deb,slk,suse)
>have fips in their dos utilities area (with GZIP.EXE , etc.) Slackware
>used to document how to use it for a linux install. I think it would be
>nice to have it more integrated into the documentation. I remember back
>when installing linux was scary-- I was turned off of debian (or was it
>redhat ?) precisely because it did not include specific intsructions for
>chopping my DOS partition in half-- silly as it seems. You just read the
>fips instructions, repartition, and then the install is a separate
>problem. But, to the neophyte, things can look really complicated, and
>they want an all in one kind of install.
It would be nice if a 'fips' util were native. Since it does the samething as a
quickformat, minus the clearing of the FAT (IE updates the superblock) it should be
simplistic to add this as a feature to mkdosfs.
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