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- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:05:55 +0900
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Stewart Dow writes: > Firstly hello to everyone on this list. Hello to you too! Welcome. > I want to create a new partition of about 500MB onto which I want to install > Linux but the fips utility is saying that the biggest partition I can make > is 90MB. The problem lies in a few random sectors that the Windows 95 > defragmentation utility refuses to move. > > 1) Are there any utilities around for finding out which files are using > these sectors? There is, or was, a DOS program called SHOWFAT.EXE which can give you a complete mapping of files to physical disk locations. It's hard to find, but you might try FTPSearch at http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ My educated guess is that the worst culprits are your Registry files, SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT. > 2) I could just reformat the whole disk (810MB) and install Linux from > scratch. Linux can, I think, do anything I am likely to want to do with the > notebook apart from run Windows Encarta. I have Encarta 95 which I can't get > to run on my other machine which has NT4. Has anyone ever heard of running > encarta under Linux. How dumb a question is this? It's conceivable that you could run it under WINE, the WINdows Emulator for Linux. It's still in a fairly early stage of development, but it seems to be more-or-less usable for some apps. Don't know about multimedia, though. Anything that needs full-screen display is probably out. URL for WINE: http://www.winehq.org/ [.com ?] Hope this helps a bit. Matt Gushee Oshamanbe, Hokkaido ---------------------------------------------------------------- Next Technical Meeting: 12 December, 12:30 HSBC Securities Office Next Nomikai: 15 January 1999, 19:30 Tengu TokyoEkiMae 03-3275-3691 ---------------------------------------------------------------- more info: http://tlug.linux.or.jp Sponsors: PHT, HSBC Securities
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