Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:25:01 -0500 From: Drifter <drifter@stratos.net> To: taco@mad.scientist.com Cc: stephen_davies@postmaster.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Windows 95 Message-ID: <199802130725.CAA13687@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:41:21 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212123938.3910A-100000@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:41:21 -0800 (PST), Todd 'Taco' Hansen wrote: > you need to use fips or something like that to resize your partition. > fdisk will make you delete and create two new partitions, which will lose > your data. I am not sure, but if you have win95 with a fat32 fs, fips > won't be able to help you. It sure doesn't. Several months ago, I first installed FBSD 2.2.2 on a Win95 computer. I couldn't get fips to work because it didn't recognize Windows 95's fat32 format. I wound up using a program called "pfdisk," which if I remember right was also on wcarchive.cdrom.com (could be wrong). This worked okay, though you have to specifically specify where on the disk you want to split it, and you have to be careful, of course, not to overwrite what's already on the disk. Also, you better run DEFRAG (or whatever the Windows program is called) first before splitting the disk... Otherwise, you might overwrite portions of you disk you didn't expect... -drifter > > On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 stephen_davies@postmaster.co.uk wrote: > > I am due to buy a PII233 with a 6G disk. > > > > This will come pre-installed with Windows 95. I would like to put Unix on > > the > > same disk and have the option to dual boot. I have read the FAQs but I was > > wondering if this could be achieved by using fdisk. > > > > What I had in mind was to create 2 partitions with fdisk and then install > > FreeBSD on the second . > > > > Does this sound feasible or is there an easier way of doing this. Also what > > > > size requirements are there. My major concern is deleting any Windows > > software > > that I will have on the preinstalled machine as I may not have backup CDs > > for > > these products. > > > > Any help would be appreciated - > > Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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