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... -- ... if the problem persists ... get a 3.5 ft ... length of sucker rod and have a chat with the user in question. -- Linux System Administration, SYSLOGD (8), page 7 (Dealing with DOS attacks exploiting SYSLOGD)
