Ziping your windows folder and then unziping it again would not run. This is because of the system registry, and some other folders/files that are installed outside of c:\windows. There are a few utilities for partitioning an existing partition, or rather for spliting it. The first is a speech enabled version of gnu partit which I found confusing. Another program is fips which runs from DOS mode, and splits a partition into used and free space. It worked for me on a friend's hd very nicely which was 25 gb. I also understand that there are some other comercial alternatives, which I will leave to others for explanation. Greg On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:23:22PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: > 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
