Re: Partition table change
virtanen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
> > > That box of mine has got only debian. Will not let m$ and partition magic
> > > in.
> > >
> > No problem. What he's referring to is a standalone boot disk that you
> > can create (you'd have to have a Win95 system somewhere that you can use
> > to make it).
>
> I'm not so sure about that. All win95 done by some mysterious small
> forgotten company, which invented the hard currency called m$ have already
> long time ago vanished from this area. Probably because it was forbidden
> to make any copies of them...
>
> > Once you have that, you just boot off of it and
> > PartitionMagic does its, well, magic. (It brings up a sort of
> > stripped-down Win95, apparently). At least if it has the drivers for
> > your disk devices. I guess you might have problems if the drives hung
> > off a SCSI controller or something.
>
> Where to get that PaMa then, if I'll get from some soneaged forgotten cave
> a win95?
>
It is a commercial product that will set you back around $70. (Sorry, I
know this is an alien concept to many Debian users. :-))
You can get a free demo, though. Don't know if that will create the
boot disk, but it probably will. Try:
http://www.powerquest.com/freestuff/index.html
It really is a nice product, but I've mainly used it to resize FAT
partitions, since I haven't had 4.0 (the one that does ext2) that long.
You can also copy partitions, which can be very useful indeed...
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