From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 10:37:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19835 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19753 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA07618; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:37:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: rdmurphy@vt.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 install problem In-Reply-To: <199806251932.PAA07150@neale.econ.vt.edu> 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 Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Russell D. Murphy wrote: > Not to complain, but the instruction booklet seems to imply that you > would use fips (from 4.1 Help! I have no space! Do I need to delete > everything first?): > > If your machine is already running DOS and has little or no free > *** > space available for FreeBSD's installation, all is not lost! You > may find the "FIPS" utility, . . . > > if you're running out of space, which I wasn't. As I said, I'm not > complaining (much); I suppose if I were more knowledgeable, it would > be crystal clear. . . ``little or no free space'' as in little or no unallocated partition space on the disk, ie you have the default DOS install of one (or more) giant partition(s) taking up all the disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message