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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Was your 1984 computer acquired used?  

No, I bought it new in 1980 for $2000.  It came with a green
screen and tape drive.
  
> I have partitioned my 2G drive to provide about 100MB for BL3 
> 1G for BL2 and the rest for whatever I feel like playing with 
> I put DOS on a separate smaller drive.  
>
> I figure if I really need a swap file I can use the BL3 partition 
> for that.  

Do yourself a favour:  put a swap partition on that drive
(unless you have a huge amount of RAM).  With that much HD
space, a swap partition is cheap insurance.

> Someone on the list suggested using Partition Resizer, a free 
> program to change partition sizes even with files on the partitions 
> (which Partition Magic cannot do in Linux).  

I would be surprised if Partition Resizer could resize Linux 
partitions.

Cheers,
Steven