Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:32:52 -0500 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Narana Kannappan <narana@cisco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fips for large disks Message-ID: <19990517123252.A1988@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <14144.16759.79398.965509@nkannapp-ss20.cisco.com>; from Narana Kannappan on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 09:23:08AM -0700 References: <14144.16759.79398.965509@nkannapp-ss20.cisco.com>
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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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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