Yes, you can do this. There are several tools. The ones for DOS/Windows cost money. The linux tool, called parted as in "partition editor," is free (surprise). What you want to do is to get a floppy that boots linux with speakup for your speech synthesizer, and has parted on it. Look on the speakup website. I believe we have this there. > Hi listers. > I hope everyone has a happy and prosperous new year. > Here's what I wanted to do, but I'm not sure if I can do it. I have > another computer running Win98 SE with a 20 GB drive in it. I am > currently running Zipspeak on it, but I would like to install a full Linux > system on it. My question is, is there a utility out there that will let > me create a partition or partition from the free space? I can't really > blow away the existing W98 partition because whistling up Sighted > assistance to reinstall Windows isn't really a practical option. I had > thought of zipping my entire Windows folder, but I don't know if it would > run once restored. > Has anyone ever done this before, and if there is a way, how could I do > it? > thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
