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