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Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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For creating a compressed version of the partition, try passing it |
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through gzip or such between dd and the output file; something like |
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# dd if=/dev/(win98) bs=512 | gzip -9 > win98.gz |
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would probably do the trick. To create an ISO image containing the |
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file, you want mkisofs (included in cdrtools afaik): |
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# mkdir win98 |
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# mv win98.gz win98/ |
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# mkisofs -o win98.iso win98/ |
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From there, it's standard cdrecord procedure. To restore the partition |
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later, simply boot to Linux and: |
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# mount /mnt/cdrom |
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# zcat /mnt/cdrom/win98.gz | dd of=/dev/(win98) |
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If even gzip -9 can't get the partition small enough for you, I'm not |
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sure what to do. Try using DBAN (dban.sourceforge.net) to cover the |
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partition in zeroes before doing the Windows install; the repeated |
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zeroes in the unused space will probably help reduce the compressed file |
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size. |
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HTH. |
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