Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

[Donald Spoon <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Abdul Latip wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, D. wrote:
>
>
> > > > Use Mandrake GNU/Linux installation CD :-)  
> > > > Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586
>
>
> > > Well, unfortunately, I am trying to sell "Debian"
> > > through "Knoppix"; not "Mandrake" :^).
>
>
> > I believe that he was giving you another option that
> > would partition your disk using something other than
> > FIPS.
>
>
> Sure, but what I have in mind is trying to introduce
> Debian to the "You-Know-What" operating system users.
>
> The first step would be just giving away Knoppix CDROMs.
> Then, if they say something like "this is great", there
> should be away for easily resizeing a FAT/NTFS file
> system.
>
> Perhaps, I should wait until "qtpartd" reaches the
> "testing" level. Currently, it is still "sid".
> And, I am not sure if it is a good idea for using 
> sid's "libc6" now.
>
> regards,

Actually, the libc6 in SID just transferred into "testing" last week. 
This is a sign it is pretty close to being OK, if not there already.

I have been using the glibc from SID for quite some time without seeing 
any of the reported "problems".  From what I have heard, the most 
significant problems recently has been getting a working version across 
all 11 CPU types supported.

I personally wouldn't let the new libc6 hold you back... especially if 
you are looking mainly at the i386 arch.  It has worked for me just fine...

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-