Re: Win95+Linux: Partitioning using Ontrack Disk Manager

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From: Ambrose Li
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:00

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On 13 Sep 1996 01:04:06 GMT, in article <01bba10f$3fa54e00$1cc5bd89@s951401>, Lawrence Cheung <ylcheung@cuhk.edu.hk> wrote:
>I have bought the book "Linux Unleashed" (Sams, 1996), but it tells you
>only how to install Linux using DOS. What's worse is that it says nothing
>about partitioning a Large EIDE hard disk. Currently I use Ontrack Disk
>Manager (DM) to overcome the DOS limitation of 504Mb. I have checked "Linux
>Large Disk mini-HOWTO". The Linux I've got supports Ontrack DM.
>Unfortunately it does not say exactly how I should proceed with the DM.
>Should I partition the 1.7 Gb using DM? Will that affect my data on Q 850?

You can partition the 1.7 GB drive using DM, but, unless you have a
really old version of DOS, there's really no point in doing so, as
DOS has already got over with the 504 MB limitation a long time ago.

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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Win95+Linux: Partitioning using Ontrack Disk Manager
Date: 1996/09/14
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