[ale] partition magic

[miff at Onramp.NET (miff)]

At 06:18 PM 1/24/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Which boot manager? 

I was referring to the boot manager that comes with partition magic.  Is
this a viable option?

>Yes. This is one of the most popular ways to do it. 

ok.  There is something that I'm not quite grasping here:  Lets say I've got
my new 400 Meg partition, (active) and I boot from a slackware (or other)
diskette with the intent of installing linux.  Since I've got a little space
on my dos partition, I have already placed the desired disk sets there (?).
During installation on the new partition, how are these
other-partition-mounted installation files useful?  Are they visible?  Or is
there another method of installation that I'm missing?

ignorantly,

-miff