Tassos Papadopoulos, the Greek sculptor behind the plan, judged that the
limestone of Mount Kerdylio, 70 miles east of Salonika and not far from the
Mount Athos monastic community, was ideal for the patriotic sculpture.
As well as Alexander's granite features, 240 ft high and 170 ft wide, a
museum, a restored amphitheatre and car park for admiring crowds are
So is this mountain limestone or granite?
If it's limestone, it'll weather pretty fast.

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Re: [ILUG] Formatting a windows partition from Linux
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From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Fri Aug 23 11:07:51 2002

Update on this for anyone that's interested, and because I like closed
threads... nothing worse than an infinite while loop, is there?
I ended up formatting a floppy on my flatmate's (un-networked) P100 running
FAT16 Win95, and mcopied the contents of the bootdisk across. Now I have a
FAT16 Win98 install running alongside Slackware, and can play Metal Gear
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 16:21, Ciaran Johnston wrote:
> > If you copy the files from your disk to the c: partition and mark it as
> Yeah, I figured that, but it doesn't seem to ... well, if that's the case
> I'll give it another go tonight, maybe come back with some error messages.
> Just to clarify for those who didn't understand me initially - I have a
> floppy drive installed, but it doesn't physically work. There's nowhere
> handy to pick one up where I am, and I don't fancy waiting a few days for
> > You especially need io.sys, command.com and msdos.sys
> > your cd driver .sys and read the autoexec.bat and config.sys files for
> > hints on what you did with your boot floppy <g>
> > On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 14:07, Ciaran Johnston wrote:
> >> The situation is this: at home, I have a PC with 2 10Gig HDDs, and no
> >> (working) floppy drive. I have been running Linux solely for the last
> >> year, but recently got the urge to, among other things, play some of
> >> my Windoze games. I normally install the windows partition using a
> >> boot floppy which I have conveniently zipped up, but I haven't any way
> >> 1. formatting a C: drive with system files (normally I would use
> >> 2. Installing the CDROM drivers (my bootdisk (I wrote it many years
> >> I wiped all my linux partitions from the first drive and created
> >> partitions for Windows (HDA1) Slackware and RedHat. I used cfdisk for
> >> this. I made the first drive (hda) bootable. I then installed the
> >> windows partition in LILO and reran lilo (installed in MBR). I copied
> >> the contents of boot.zip to my new windows partition and tried to boot
> >> it - all I get is a garbled line of squiggles.
> >> Anyone any ideas? I can't think of anywhere in Athlone to get a new
> >> Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie
> >> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription
> >> information. List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie