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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: info: Disk partitoner for *BSD Date: 15 Sep 1993 19:48:39 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <277rin$avk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <277la0$q4s@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu I find 3 utilities very useful for setting this stuff up. 1) pfdisk, as mentioned. 2) fips 3) os-bs, or booteasy or bootany. 1) pfdisk has been discussed. 2) fips is really cool, because it will let you take a DOS partition, and split it into two partitions, and then you can use pfdisk to set the ID of the new partition, and do the install w/o having to backup and restore your DOS partition. 3) Nice boot managers. Booteasy is a tad superior to os-bs, as it will let you boot from the second disk. All of these are available on ftp.coe.montana.edu:/tmp, I asked for them to be picked up by the FreeBSD people for the utilities section, but I'm not sure that's happened yet, or if it will. Actually, I don't have bootany available, but all the rest of the stuff is there. (BSDI uses bootany, which is what I had originally installed). -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu