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From: sleddog
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00
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On 22 Feb 2000 00:07:45 GMT, Hexdump <hexdump@curmudgeon.invalid> wrote: >On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:49:29 GMT, Luke wrote: >>> Try switching your 2nd and 3rd partitions. Any partition you want to >>> boot from has to be contained within the first 1024 cylinders of your >>> drive, or almost certainly the first 8.4 GB. If you change your >>> partition arrangement to >> >>I would think that partition magic may be able to rearrange the partitions >>non-destructively. >> > >I'm not sure about later versions but PM4 doesn't allow one to switch >the actual order of the partitions. > Only if you have a 2nd physical drive with free space. You can copy a partition to the second physical drive, then move/resize partitions on the original drive to make free space where you want it, then copy the partition back. -- sleddog
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcd6c,133b52b41266e94d X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd6c,public X-Google-Thread: f8a83,133b52b41266e94d X-Google-Attributes: gidf8a83,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,133b52b41266e94d X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 11024c,133b52b41266e94d X-Google-Attributes: gid11024c,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,133b52b41266e94d X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10c45b,133b52b41266e94d X-Google-Attributes: gid10c45b,public From: sleddog@operamail.com (sleddog) Subject: Re: Experienced Linux users please take look... Date: 2000/02/22 Message-ID: <1954.38b1dd72.7468a@oldguy.komatik.org> X-Deja-AN: 588329921 References: <88qitm$pk9$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net> <38B12536.8AFA4911@gtcinternet.com> <38B16CE8.923D7D9F@home.com> <slrn8b3kp8.48o.hexdump@curmudgeon.invalid> X-Complaints-To: abuse@ns.sympatico.ca X-Trace: sapphire.mtt.net 951214120 142.163.18.19 (Tue, 22 Feb 2000 06:08:40 AST) Organization: Sympatico-Subscriber User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Win32) Reply-To: sleddog@operamail.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 06:08:40 AST Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux,it.comp.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install