From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 16:20:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19550 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:20:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id QAA25882; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:19:53 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id QAA02380; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:19:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:19:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: ZorkLord cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <18944.971210@xtreme.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, ZorkLord wrote: >FreeBSD, > > Thanks for your answers so far, I just want to clarify > something. I have 1 HDD at 4.3Gig split into two FAT16 > partitions at 2.15Gig each. Winblows is on the first > partition along with all my programs/games, the second > partition is completely empty, but I dont want to deadicate > the entire second partition to FreeBSD, is it possible to use > FIPS to create a smaller partition from the second partition, > say 300Meg? If so, there any FAQ's or instructions for FIPS > anywhere? How you do this is entirely up you. You can use disc tools to slice a drive up into 10MB pieces if you like. I personally use 4.3 GB for FreeBSD. I used to use 1 GB. For you, I would use fdisk in dos to split the empty partition. I would then use one of those "splits" for FreeBSD. I would not make the FreeBSD partition smaller than 500 MB. If you really like FreeBSD you will fill it up fast. If you don't like it, it won't matter because you will delete FreeBSD. Go for it! At the absolute worst you delete FreeBSD and end up with an empty partition, just like you have right now. At the best, you find out what a great product FreeBSD is an delete Winblows from Microspastic. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message