CHARLES ANGELICH -> DAVID DRUMMOND wrote:

 DD>>>> The point is Charles that DOS is no longer "the Ghost in
 DD>>>> the Machine". Many modern machines have never seen it.
 DD>>>> Very little will fit on a diskette any more so their use
 DD>>>> is becoming far less prevelant. Many new machines don't
 DD>>>> come with a floppy drive.

 CA> You always refer to "new machines". Do you not realize that new
 CA> machines do _not_ outnumber machines in the installed base of
 CA> computers out there in use today?

Yes, I forget that you live in the boonies. Machines have been available
without floppy drives for more than 4 years now...

[re Partition Magic]

 DD>> what do you do with your machines there?)

 CA> I use BootitNG to manage my multiboot, image backups, and any
 CA> requirements to repartition or resize existing partitions. What
 CA> do you use?

I don't have mutliboot machines, I tend to have one OS per machine. I don't
make image backups, I just copy my data directories (usually to tape). I
find with MS based machines that if the OS dies, it has been decomposing
for a while, and restoring an image backup is putting back a faulty system.

I haven't felt the need to resize partition in an awful long time...

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regards

David

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