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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get partition
Date: 9 Aug 1996 19:30:53 GMT
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DuckHunter <smpc@aloha.net> wrote:

> Like I said before, I can't partition my (up till now) Win95 ide disk.
> All the space I can get for a FreeBSD partition is 1 meg, but I've got
> 660 megs free.

What does the FreeBSD partition editor show you as the disk layout?
Do you have to remove an existing fdisk slice first?

-- 
cheers, J"org

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