Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:07:01 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: Barry Soben <bsoben@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive Partitioning Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.961027010052.545B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961027032802.00682e2c@fix.net>
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Barry Soben wrote: > Hi! Hello. > Using partition magic, I partitioned my 1 gig hard drive 600 megs for MSDOS > and 400 megs for FreeBSD. Presently the 400 megs is "free space", it does > not have any sort of partition format. In reading "Installing and Running > FreeBSD", I couldn't quite figure out whether I'm best off just running FIPS > or using Partition Magic to set those 400 megs to some sort of file system.. > (Not sure which one!) None of the above. :) Just start the install from the floppy and when you get to the partition editor highlight that 400 meg space and choose `C' to create a partition there. Then `Q' to continue on your way and all the heavy lifting will be done for you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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