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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupid newbie tricks Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:57:02 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31C8DA1E.6F5F@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <8791dl9qh7.fsf@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> <4q6qe3$3na@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> <31C762EC.3F54BC7E@ucs.mun.ca> <31C83C92.646@cpmt2.cyberport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Aaron Shoal wrote: > > I'm having some installation problems. Mainly with partitions, like > is there any way that I can use the 500 unused megs sitting on my new > hard drive to set up free bsd? It's already partitioned as an extended > dos, for windows 95, but I thought fips would let me resize it.. I > guess I was wrong.. Any suggestion short of killing the entire drive > and starting over? (If this would be more better suited to a different > newsgroup, I apologize) > fips works on a primary partition, not an extended one. If that 500 MB is already partitioned in any way at all, FreeBSD (or any other operating system) can't just use it -- it has to establish its own partition just as DOS has to. Sorry, but to use that space for FreeBSD, you'll first have to delete the extended partition that uses it. I hope you have some space for backups! Ken