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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Still can't install. HELP!
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 21:13:45 -0700
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TheDuck wrote:
> 
> I still can't install FreeBSD from a Win95 partition. I got FIPS to
> work, started to install, but I couldn't create a /usr , / , or any
> other file system in the install. Can anybody help?

Did you use fdisk to delete the second primary partition? (FIPS doesn't 
change the size of the assigned partition as such, it just splits it into 
two primary partitions, one of which is empty.)
-- 

Ken

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