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Linux-Activists Digest #636, Volume #2           Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:15:20 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Diamond Speed Star SVGA card (Kevin Cummings)
  Re: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions (Drew Eckhardt)

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From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speed Star SVGA card
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:48:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.171832.23483@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
| anyone got this to work with X under Linux????

Yes, but not me, I don't have one.

| And also, is it true that the Diamond Stealth card won't work 'cuz
| it has that new S3 chip???

Yeup, that's also true.  I do own one of these, but I haven't tried.
I've been trying to figure out how Diamond selects the clocks for the
different video modes.  No luck yet.  If I have time this weekend, I'll
play around with DEBUG under DOS, and try and see what the bleep the VBIOS
is doing for mode selection.

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Kevin J. Cummings                       PrimeService
20 Briarwood Road                       A Computervision Company
Framingham, Mass.                       500 Old Connecticut Path
                                        Framingham, Mass.
Work:  cummings@primerd.Prime.COM
Home:  cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
                  I've come to the conclusion that your new
                  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
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From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:35:59 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.193838.16110@nas.nasa.gov> chiu@wk211.nas.nasa.gov (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
|Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
|partitions.  (Sorry if this is an faq.)

Yes.  You must non-destructively repartition the disk.  
Basically, this involves shortening a DOS partition
(both in the DOS boot record, and in the partition table), 
after defragmenting it and getting all of the used stuff out of 
the way, and making a new Linux partition in the old space.

Watch out for logical sector size != 512 bytes, like on 
Disk Manager partitions.

It's a little messy, and unless you can be REAL comfortable 
with the structures involved, you probably don't want to do it.


-- 
Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, 
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but neither is as bad as AT&T.  Boycott AT&T, and let them know how you feel. 


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