Thanks Janina, but what exactly am I looking for, and in what directory? I still find the nomenclature of the Ftp tree confusing sometimes. thanks. On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
