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Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:



>> On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 07:38:16PM +0200, Jaakko Niemi wrote:
>> > >> Actually my NT installation from February is still working fine,
>> > >> as is my 95 installation (but that's because all I use it for is
>> > >> Total Annihilation. :-)
>> > 
>> >  Note: at work I see at least 2 boxes per day that can be fixed
>> >  only by reinstalling 95/98/NT. It's mildly put SICK.
>> 
>> It's shocking. Fortunately I don't deal with any Windows boxes but
>> my own on a daily basis. I did do some consulting on Windows and did
>> a lot of reinstalls. When I was running 95 on my desktop I was usually
>> reinstalling about every six months; NT seems a lot better actually.
>> 
>> >  Or use DriveImage from Powerquest or Ghost from GhostSoftware.
>> 
>> You would have to use Partition Magic after that to make the partition
>> bigger, right?

 At least DriveImage can resize FAT partitions as large as free space, 
 iirc NTFS partitions too, when installing the image. Only thing is that 
 the free space must be equal or larger than the partition you made 
 the image from, even if you only used 1 meg from that partition.

	--j



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