Re: tlug: splitting windoze

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

> way to split the partition or to backup windows and restore it so that 
> it runs again afterwards. I have little experience with this stuff

I would recommend that he buy Partition Magic.  It will safely and
reliably repartion his disk on the fly (with the data in place, but of
course do a backup first anyway) and allow him to create a free space
partition to put Linux in.  Partition Magic also includes the OS/2 boot
manager, which I prefer to LILO (I've had some problems with LILO on the
Fujitsu I use at work, and now I'm gun shy).  I install LILO in the Linux
partition and let the OS/2 boot manager handle the actual configuration on
any machine I'm dual-booting.  I know that LILO works very well for most
people, so maybe he'll want to use it.  Partition Magic is very good
anyway, though, and I think he'll like it.  It can even read (but not
manipulate) ext2 partitions.

TL 2.0 release will be out in about two weeks, if everything goes
according to schedule.  Your friend may also want to wait until then to do
his install, since even if he put in the just-released beta 3, he'd just
be looking at another install soon.  Unless he's the adventurous type who
would like to play with a beta :-)

Cheers,

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>

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