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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).
      <BR>
      Different skill levels will be available (newbie, advanced user, expert).
      <BR>
      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!!!

    <UL>
      <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...)
    </UL>
	
    <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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