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From: Tim Meddick on 29 Oct 2009 18:38
That IS interesting - that Bart's PE Creator handles the creation of partitions on a
hard-drive as well!

Concerning your comments about the delimiter above my sig. I was TOLD (in no
uncertain terms) that having
"--" as the delimiter negatively affects some newsreaders - cutting the rest of the
text off at that point.
So I specifically changed it (it's not automatic - I have to do this manually EVERY
time I post a reply) to "==" to avoid problems with these newsreaders.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG(a)soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bly3vsQpxM6KFwit(a)soft255.demon.co.uk...
> In message <#GD1Vp9VKHA.1236(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Tim Meddick
> <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> writes:
>>That's interesting as I don't have a CD/DVD writer - just a cd-rom
>
> (This - a netbook - doesn't have either, though it works fine with an external
> one.)
>
>>drive, but I do have two hard-drives installed and might look into doing something
>>along those lines, now that I know it's possible.
>
> I _don't_ have two hard drives; the boot menu that offers me the two choices,
> BartPE and Windows, is on the same drive (and, I think, partition) as Windows is.
> And I didn't do anything special - I'm not that good at such things; it was all set
> up for me as part of the BartPE installation.
>>
>>BTW changing the "time-out" of the OS choices menu is as simple as text-editing the
>>root-file "boot.ini" and changing the very first lines:
>>
>>[boot loader]
>>timeout=1
>>
>>You may have to change the file's attributes in order to see / save the file.
>>Alternatively, there's a built-in editor for the "boot.ini" file.
>
> I probably used one of those options.
> []
>>==
>>
>>Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
> []
> There is a good reason for having your .sig delimiter as "-- " (note the space)
> rather than "==".
> --
> J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar(a)T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
> ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
> outdated thoughts on PCs. **
>
> I'm getting pretty enough for radio now (Desmond Lynam in Radio Times, 1998)

From: J. P. Gilliver (John) on 31 Oct 2009 08:15
In message <e61QOiOWKHA.4416(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Tim Meddick
<timmeddick(a)gawab.com> writes:
>That IS interesting - that Bart's PE Creator handles the creation of
>partitions on a hard-drive as well!

Hmm. I'm not sure it does anything about partitions: I think it just
hooks into the menu system that is part of Windows (isn't it a .ini file
somewhere?).
>
>Concerning your comments about the delimiter above my sig. I was TOLD
>(in no uncertain terms) that having
>"--" as the delimiter negatively affects some newsreaders - cutting the
>rest of the text off at that point.
>So I specifically changed it (it's not automatic - I have to do this
>manually EVERY time I post a reply) to "==" to avoid problems with
>these newsreaders.
>
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that you top-post. Yes, when I reply to a posting
(or an email), my news/mail software (by default - I can override) snips
at the delimiter, so that I don't post/mail people's signatures back to
them or to the newsgroup. If the post/email being responded to hasn't
placed his/her text below the points he/she is responding to (as I've
done here), but leaves all of the original post below, then yes it will
get snipped (by default).

I'll leave the rest of your post this time (-:
>==
>
>Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
>
>
>
>
>"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG(a)soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:bly3vsQpxM6KFwit(a)soft255.demon.co.uk...
>> In message <#GD1Vp9VKHA.1236(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Tim Meddick
>><timmeddick(a)gawab.com> writes:
>>>That's interesting as I don't have a CD/DVD writer - just a cd-rom
>>
>> (This - a netbook - doesn't have either, though it works fine with an
>>external one.)
>>
>>>drive, but I do have two hard-drives installed and might look into
>>>doing something along those lines, now that I know it's possible.
>>
>> I _don't_ have two hard drives; the boot menu that offers me the two
>>choices, BartPE and Windows, is on the same drive (and, I think,
>>partition) as Windows is. And I didn't do anything special - I'm not
>>that good at such things; it was all set up for me as part of the
>>BartPE installation.
>>>
>>>BTW changing the "time-out" of the OS choices menu is as simple as
>>>text-editing the root-file "boot.ini" and changing the very first lines:
>>>
>>>[boot loader]
>>>timeout=1
>>>
>>>You may have to change the file's attributes in order to see / save
>>>the file. Alternatively, there's a built-in editor for the "boot.ini"
>>>
>>
>> I probably used one of those options.
>> []
>>>==
>>>
>>>Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
>> []
>> There is a good reason for having your .sig delimiter as "-- " (note
>>the space) rather than "==".
>> -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
>>MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar(a)T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
>> ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
>> outdated thoughts on PCs. **
>>
>> I'm getting pretty enough for radio now (Desmond Lynam in Radio
>>Times, 1998)
>

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar(a)T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e. cummings, poet
(1894-1962)
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