Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Barbisan <barbisan@interlog.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FIPS Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96r.980817002255.11581B-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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Hi, I received FreeBSD 2.2.7 a few days ago from Walnut Creek and decided today would be a good day to start at it. I am using a Pentium-75 with 16mb RAM and a Seagate 2.1GB hard drive. I currently run Windows95 with FAT32 installed on the Seagate. I know that the version of FIPS does not work with FAT32 so I went off onto the FreeBSD ftp site and downloaded the newest version. It is FIPS 1.5C and as you probably know, it does support FAT32. I followed all the instructions, I made a boot disk, put the fips files onto it, ran Scandisk and Defrag (the Win95 versions), I shoved in the floppy, ran the proper Shutdown sequence in Win95 and reset. FIPS recognized it was FAT32 and all the information provided seemed to fit everything described in FIPS.DOC. However, when it comes to the part when I select the size of the paritition it will only gives me upto 15.8MB (1014-1021 cylinders) to create it with (even though I have about 980MB free on the disk). So I decided to disable the Virtual memory, I ran DEFRAG again. It still would only give me a max of 15.8MB. So I rebooted (put back the Virtual memory and such) and ran DEFRAG just to see what the drive looks like. It seems that there is some "Data that will not be moved" (As the Microsoft Defrag legend puts it) near the end of the drive (I assume probably at the 1013 cylinder). Is there any way to get around this with FIPS, or any other program (Partition Magic)? Are there any programs that can identify certain those sectors so I can delete them? I would like to avoid reformatting the drive, but I will if I have to. Thanks in advance, Mark Barbisan, barbisan@interlog.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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