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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:58:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "J & J.A. Holland" <J.J.A.H@btinternet.com>
Cc:        Jordan <Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Disk Space
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970325125755.11845L-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703232100.VAA26392@snow.btinternet.com>

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On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, J & J.A. Holland wrote:

> Help!
>         I have a 1.2 gb hard drive partitioned off into 3 partions under
> DOS/win95 with 244mb free which I have tried to partition for freeBSD.
> FreeBSD Fdisk will not recognise it as free space or as a DOS partition or
> linux partition. What can I do?

The space must be completely free.  It cannot be inside an extended
partition.  Try using fips or partition magic to prune back that space.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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