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Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:32:52 -0500
From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
To: Narana Kannappan <narana@cisco.com>,
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Subject: Re: fips for large disks
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It is very likely that you are using fips version 1.5 or older.  Version
2.0 of fips was recently put in the pub/FreeBSD/tools directory on the ftp
sites.  Please try this version out.

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fips.exe

Good Luck,
Nathan

Narana Kannappan <narana@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have win98 installed on a 8GB hard-drive.
>   I wanted to repartition it so that I could
>   put the freeBSD root partion in that. 
> 
>   I used the 'fips' program that came with the
>   2.2 CDROM. But I got an error which said something
>   like "..end cylinder head 254 invalid" and it quit.
> 
>   Am I using an old version of fips that doesnt partition
>   large disks ?
> 
>   Are there any other alternative software I could use ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Narana.
> 
> 
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