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From: Robert Blazek <blazek@server.uwindsor.ca>
Subject: EZ Drive and Minix, how???
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I'm kicking around the idea of creating a small minix partition
on my machine, say 40-60 megs.

However, here's the (potential) problem...

My laptop is old, I just upgraded to a bigger HD.
Due to its age it didn't have a user-configurable bios.
Hence I had to use a HD manager called EZ-Drive to enable
my computer to recognize the HD.  EZ-Drive for those
who aren't familiar works like Ontrack Disk Manager.

Currently I have my HD partitions into four equal partitions of
104 megs each (C: D: E: F:).

What I'd like to do is subdivide the F: drive for example so
part of it will be minix and part will be dos.  I'd like to
do this non-destructively if possible.

Is such a thing possible?
I'm looking for a solution that won't hose the EZ-Drive software
and wipe out the other partitions.  My version of EZ-Drive came
with extremely minimal disk based documentation that obviously doesn't
address my concerns.  It had nothing about partitioning between multiple
operating systems such as dos & minix.  Also EZ-Drive seemed limited
to providing me with only two choices of partitioning (when I
initially set it up) one big drive or 4 equal partitions.

I'm only interested in fiddling with Minix a bit, I don't intend
to do major power user stuff, just education on a unix-like
system at home.

Thanks to everyone in advance


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Robert Blazek, Windsor Law Third Year
* Kids dream they can fly.  Adults dream they can fly first class.

