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Date:      Fri, 2 Aug 1996 23:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        DuckHunter <smpc@aloha.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem partitioning
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802230937.535R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32003E3A.ACA@aloha.net>

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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




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