Partitioning a drive with windows already on it?

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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