Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> I've come across FIPS, a GNU utility for MS-DOS partitioning that has
> especially good docs (imho). Just wondering what experiences people have
> had with it; seems like the best bet, to me.
>
> Rest of message simply is background for my question.
>
> I'm thinking of pruning my HD to the bone (52 MB; sorry, low budget for
> now; leery of installing another) and installing Monkey Linux, which
> (iirc) needs its own partition(s). (I'll reread the FAQ and HOW-TOs!
> Promise!) Monkey, despite its odd name, seems like the best compact
> distrib. going for my needs. (I might post a query in a separate message
> detailing needs and asking for recommendations.)
>
> FDisk (MS) seems dangerous, and FIPS doesn't require de facto
> destruction of existing contents. I know you should squash (back up and
> defrag) what you want to keep, into low-numbered sectors, before using
> FIPS.
>
> As ever, many thanks in advance!
fips works very well! It should be what you need. I've heard that it has
trouble with the latest versions of win95/98 (fat32) but with 52mb you
wont have that problem. Be sure to defrag to put everthing on the start
of the disk. Make a bootable disk with fips and restorrb (I think that's
the name of it), and fips will put information on your boot disk that
you can use to restore your disk if you need to.
