From: "Ya'qub" <rg3 AT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: Go32-v2 says DPMI can't see all of my hard drive.
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:37:15 +0100
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Greetings,
        Thought you might be interestd in two ditributions of Linux which
can be installed from Windows and then accessed from Windows. Here's what I
found from www.download.com

'Description
WinLinux 2000 is a full Linux distribution designed and built to be easily
installed from within Windows 95 or 98. WinLinux 2000 setup and
configuration software automatically detects and configures most of your
hardware devices. You can boot Linux as easily as starting any Windows
application and share free hard disk space between Windows and Linux.
WinLinux includes KDE and Netscape Communicator, as well as a host of other
Linux and X Windows applications. WinLinux 2000 is distributed under the
lesser GPL.'

'Description
Phat Linux is a version of Linux that you can install from within Windows.
It allows you to use the Linux OS without having to repartition your hard
disk; it even allows you to select the amount of space that you would like
to set aside for Linux. Installation is as simple as unzipping the ZIP
archive and running a batch file (either within Windows or from a DOS
command prompt). Phat Linux includes communication programs such as Netscape
Communicator and Licq; multimedia programs such as the GIMP and XMMS;
development programs; networking applications; hardware detection and
configuration utilities; XFree86 (X Windows) 3.3.5, which supports many
newer video cards; the Linux kernel source code; setup wizards; and more.
Phat Linux comes preconfigured with the KDE desktop. It is distributed under
the GNU GPL.'

Main drawback is that the download is HUGE, just under 200MB!

Regards
Ya'qub


Damian Yerrick <d_yerrick AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:19991021191328 DOT 87998 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com...
>
> Prashant TR <prashant_news AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> > --- Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:
> > > I run go32-v2 with no args under Windows 9x, and it
> > > tells me
> > >
> > > DPMI memory available: 26201 Kb
> > > DPMI swap space available: 36027 Kb
> > >
> > > I have a 6 gig hard disk with 3 gig free. Where is
> > > the rest of the swap space?
> >
> > You must have partitioned your HDD, right ?
>
> There is only one FAT32 partition, C:
>
> > So, how much of free space do you have in C: ?
>
> 3,536,650,240 bytes (3.29 GB)
>
> > That's what you're probably getting.
> > Anyway, this is just a guess.
>
> Any other guesses? Or is it that XMS and/or DPMI
> only allow 64 MB of XMS memory?
>
> I'd like to partition my HD to install Caldera or Red Hat
> Linux, but what freeware will shrink the FAT32 partition
> by a gigabyte and leave its files intact?
>