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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2003 07:15:24 PDT7
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ThinkPad T20 update & PM 6 question

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On Tue, 13 May 2003 23:15:37 PDT7, Steven Levine wrote:

>In , on
05/13/03
> at 11:19 AM, GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net said:
>
>>(I had to sign something giving them permission to do
>>so, otherwise I ran the risk of getting the machine
>>back un-repaired).
>
>Yep, that's why we make backups. :-)
>

Oh, well, an excuse to possibly install eCS 1.1.

>>Assuming I get the machine back tomorrow, I don't
>>remember (since it's been a while since I've used
>>Partition Magic) if I can tell it to create a FAT16
>>partition after I tell it to shrink the Win98
>>partition (which I assume is FAT32)? Or would I have
>>to use FDISK/FORMAT after I use Partition Magic 6
>>(which I got from Terry Warren)?
>
>You can, but I would recommend only using PM to do the shrink. Use LVM
>for the rest.
>
>What I would do is:
>
> - shrink WinXX partition with PM
> - boot install CD
> - add BM partition
> - add boot partition
> - format HPFS
> - add FAT partition
> - format FAT
> - shutdown (i.e. CAD), swap in floppy and boot WinXX
> - copy files to FAT partition
> - shutdown, swap in CD and reboot
> - install
>

If I recall, you add partitions in the physical view, but do the BM part in the logical view?

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