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From: Dave Horsfall (dave_at_horsfall.org)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 02:27:25 CDT

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    On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, tedu wrote:

    > edit the disklabel. use the -e option, as -E won't let you do everything
    > you want. You'll need to get the sector offsets and sizes of each of your
    > linux partitions, from within linux using whatever tool does that. write
    > them down, and create partitions as appropriate with type ext2fs.

    Yep, I finally figured it out (with a bit of help from Chris Kuethe).

    If anyone is interested, the Penguin counts its cylinders from 1 (not 0)
    in 1Kb blocks (not 512b), with a constant offset of 63 sectors (added
    to where Penguin thinks it starts, at least on this drive).

    > this is one of those activities where you will want to backup anything
    > important before attempting it.

    Oh yes...

    Yet another successful Penguinectomy :-) 

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