Phil Parker schreef:

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>>That's already 12 years ago, as you are aware of, aren't you?
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>Is this purely rhetorical? (Actually, it's been slightly over 12 years, since
>the last business day before the July 4 holiday in 1993.)
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I meant, and I mean, to refer to actions/methods/procedures from 1993 
and before looks a bit out of date.
A maintenance partition on hard disk is a phenomena from the era CD 
drives didn't exist and hence a bootable CD didn't exist.

>>No. Besides being an install CD it's a full featured maintenance 
>>partition too.
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>What does that mean? For example, what tools does it have?
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That does mean what it means. You have a maintenace partition, actually 
something better as a maintenance partition, as none of your hard disks 
will be locked (having as much unlocked HD as possible is the very 
reason for having a maintenance partition - a M.P. onto HD locks at 
least one partition as you well are aware of).

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>>You don't have anything to install.
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>Since we don't know what the problem is, I don't see how that necessarily
>follows.
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You were talking about installing a maintenance partition, so I replied 
using the CD you won't even have to install anything.

>Do you mean getting to the command line or fixing my problem? 
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No. I meant you should at least try before arguing.

At the system management you have aviable:

- chkdsk PM (and in my experience the only reliable one)
- format PM
- Indeed you can go to the command line
- You can use fm/2, fc/2 or anything to copy, move, delete etc.... For 
the event they won't be available on HD I made a second CD to which I 
copied some useful tools. Yes, I have a second CD drive, but even that 
isn't necessary, as you can swap with the eCS CD once you are in the 
system management.
- you can lvmPM as well as lvm textmode.
- you can perform the Unimaint- and other restore actions.
- And as it's PM, you can launch the unimaint repair as well, and as 
nothing is locked, you even won't have to reset the WPS, the latter 
being sometimes the triky part as you well are aware of.

Only snog it you have to forget about old habits. You have to 
investigate the possibilities and features of the system management. I 
can't hold your hand, for the Atlantic is to broad or my arm is to short.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




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