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<H2>I- What's it?</H2>
The purpose of the DiskDrake project is to make easier the hard disk
partitionning. It is graphical, simple and powerful. The license is
the GPL (General Public License).
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Different skill levels will be available (newbie, advanced user, expert).
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It's written entirely in Perl and Perl/Gtk. It uses resize_fat which is
a perl rewrite of the work of Andrew Clausen (libresize).
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DiskDrake is a project from MandrakeSoft, the company behind the popular
<a href="http://www.linux-mandrake.com">Linux-Mandrake</a>
operating-system.
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A <A href="http://www.eatel.net/~john/diskdrake/faq.html">FAQ</A> is in construction.
<H2>II - What's available now</H2>
DiskDrake should be usable now...
it can:
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<LI> create partitions
<LI> delete partitions
<LI> change type of partition
<LI> format partitions
<LI> assign a mount point (<IMG SRC="/images/updated.gif" ALT="updated"><SMALL>(21/07/99)</SMALL> propose a list
of classic mount points and verify the mount point is valid)
<LI> mount partitions
<LI> resize fat partitions
<LI> resize partitions (when not caring loosing its data)
<LI> clear partition table
<LI> auto allocation (usefull for install)
<LI> write fstab
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with nice contextual menu (shortcuts available, but dangerous as all actions are
available, whereas with the contextual menu these actions are hidden. This will
change)
<P><IMG SRC="/images/updated.gif" ALT="updated"><SMALL>(25/07/99)</SMALL>
A new Expert button appear now. It toggles between
expert and normal mode. Some changes in information displayed:
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<LI> when you click (or focus) the drive tab (eg: hda), you get
information about your drive: size, geometry
(cylinders/sectors/heads number), type (eg: IBM DDRS-39130D), and bus/id.
In normal mode you have only the size.
<LI> the windows drive letter (eg: C: D: ...)
<LI> the `start sector' information from normal mode, it still appears in
expert mode
<LI> the start&end cylinder of each partition is now displayed in expert
mode
<LI> the type is displayed numerically in expert mode
</UL>
<P><IMG SRC="/images/updated.gif" ALT="updated"><SMALL>(25/07/99)</SMALL>
The mount point in the `Create' window and `Change type' window is now a
combo box. It lets you choose between classical mount points (/ /usr /var
...) but with already allocated mount points removed.
<H2>III - Actual developpment</H2>
We need people!!!
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<LI><B>Tests</B> and remove bugs (no known yet :)
<LI>integrate ext2resize (which has been release in version 1.0.0 <IMG
SRC="/images/updated.gif" ALT="updated"><SMALL>(26/07/99)</SMALL>)
<LI>add possibility to move partition without loosing data (by copying all
data) <IMG SRC="/images/updated.gif" ALT="updated">
<LI>Improve the look
<LI>Add a text-only version
<LI>Help text, tutorial...
<LI>Internationalization
<LI>Add some features...
<LI>Packaging (rpm, deb, slp...)
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<H2>IV- ScreenShot</H2>
Warning: features was the main focus, so don't be too hard :)
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<CENTER><IMG SRC="1.gif"></IMG></CENTER>
<CENTER>DiskDrake main interface</CENTER>
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<CENTER><IMG SRC="3.gif"></IMG></CENTER>
<CENTER>create dialog box</CENTER>
<H2>V - Contacts</H2>
A Mailing List has been created to allow developpers to discuss about DiskDrake.<BR>
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Send a mail to: <A HREF="mailto:sympa@linux-mandrake.com">sympa@linux-mandrake.com</A>
<BR>Put in the subject: subscribe diskdrake
<BR>When you're subscribed, send your messages to: <A HREF="mailto:diskdrake@linux-mandrake.com">diskdrake@linux-mandrake.com</A>
<P>Otherwise you can contact directly the <A HREF="mailto:pixel@linux-mandrake.com">project leader</A>.
<H2>VI - Download</H2>
Warning: You must have <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Gtk/Gtk-Perl-0.5121.tar.gz">Gtk-Perl</a>.
You can get the rpm from the <a href="http://linux-mandrake.com/cooker/">Cooker</a> distribution.
<P>You also need perl version 5.00503 or better
<P> Here you can find the plain tgz or a rpm:
<a href="ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu/pub/mandrake-devel/contrib/others/diskdrake/">diskdrake</a> (Other mirrors in <a href="http://linux-mandrake.com/cooker/">Cooker</a>)
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