From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 23:09:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02921 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02913 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00659; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: DuckHunter cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem partitioning In-Reply-To: <32003E3A.ACA@aloha.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, DuckHunter wrote: > I have Win95 and I'm trying to install FreeBSD. For some reason, when I > try to create a partition for FreeBSD during the installation, the two > unused sectors I have available are marked as having the sizes as 63 > blocks and 4032 blocks(1 meg). I have 580 megs free. I tried to use > FIPS, but it failed after saying "Last cylinder not free", even after a > Win95 defrag. > Is this occurring because I'm ont using a DOS defrag? Have you ever used Mirror or Image? It may be leaving it's image on the last sector. Use a disk editor to delete it and try again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major