Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:48:35 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fips from win95 Message-ID: <9709020248.AA00531@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:27:45 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830212712.664B-100000@localhost>
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> On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > > > So, I try booting up the PC into MSDOS mode and run fips. Now, I tried > > this once on my laptop and it didn't work -- hung the machine. I tried it > > on this PC here and I had it complain about ... oh, I can't remember now, > > it didn't like the partition type I think. I don't have the exact error > > message, I'll get that later... > > > > Bottom line is, have people done this from win95 or am I just screwed? > > If it complained about the partition type, then you're running FAT32 and > FIPS won't help you. You'll have to get Partition Magic to manipulate the > partition. > Maybe not... from fips (last year some time), it doesn't understand some of the ofther fat16 partitions (I bought a laptop around thanksgiving which had a paritition type of (I think) '0xE'. I re-ided it (I think) and I was fine (but this was a royal pain in the arse). > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com The Feynman problem solving Algorithm 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer Murray Gel-mann in the NY Times
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