From:	Brian Osman <osmanb AT rpi DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: 32bit DOS.
Date:	Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:47:08 -0400
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Vic wrote:
> OK. you want 1) a program that will allow you multiple OSs on the same
> hard drive and the ability to choose between them and 2) a program
> that will partition your HDD on the fly, no re-formating it , right?
> the first program is called LILO and it comes with any LINUX
> distribution. There is also a commercial program called "system
> commander" . For the partition thingie you have FIPS which also comes
> with any LINUX distribution :). And yes, there also is a commercial
> program to do this called "Partition magic" . Frankly I prefer the
> LINUX ones cause they're free :) I think you can also get them from
> the net on one of those LINUX FTP sites.
> --
> --> http://www.cam.org/~tudor <--
> Go ahead and build another Messiah
> We dig another grave...

I'm not certain, but the last time I used FIPS and Partition Magic, PM
was much more powerful. (Not in stupid user interface, but FIPS would
only take a partition which could be truncated without changing cluster
size, and do so. PM will take any partition (including the one it's
running on) and modify cluster size, move it around the disk, resize it,
etc... The number of things that can be done vary with the partition
type, but it has fairly complete support for DOS, Win, NT, etc...
(though not as complete for Linux.)

Still, like you said, FIPS IS free. (And as for SC vs LILO, I've only
used LILO, but I don't see what SC could possibly do that LILO doesn't.)

Brian

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