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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.gtn.com!klemm.gtn.com!usenet From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partitioning the hard drive. Date: 13 Nov 1996 19:49:52 GMT Organization: FreeBSD makes fun Lines: 32 Message-ID: <56d8p0$8d@klemm.gtn.com> References: <55tsdu$8t1@news.skylink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: klemm.gtn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <55tsdu$8t1@news.skylink.net>, phattman@Phatt.daddy writes: > > I've just gotten interested in using FreeBSD and I'm a little sketchy > on how to install it. You need to have like a whole new partition for > it but i've heard stories about people partitioning hard drives and it > hasn't worked for the best. Is there a safe way to partition the hard > drive or an easy way? I run windows 95 and I want to put it on the > same hard drive. If you partition the hard drive and it screws up > somehow, does it affect the other files, i.e. corrupt them, denying > access to them, lose them, can't get into system or something? You need free room on the harddisk to install FreeBSD. If you only have one large Win95 partition, then remove some unneeded things and after that run a disk compression program as defrag. That moves everything at the beginning of your Win95 partition. After that run the utility 'fips', a harddisk repartitioner, you can find it on ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/,,,, or on the FreeBSD cr-rom. That allows you to get some space for a 2nd partition. After that you have free space and during FreeBSD installation you simply populate that free space. Voila. Please read the README file of the fips utility very careful and please to a backup of your data first ! Andreas /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<