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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: info: Disk partitoner for *BSD
Date: 15 Sep 1993 19:48:39 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717
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I find 3 utilities very useful for setting this stuff up.

1)  pfdisk, as mentioned.
2)  fips
3)  os-bs, or booteasy or bootany.

1)  pfdisk has been discussed.

2)  fips is really cool, because it will let you take a DOS partition,
and split it into two partitions, and then you can use pfdisk to set the
ID of the new partition, and do the install w/o having to backup and
restore your DOS partition.

3)  Nice boot managers.  Booteasy is a tad superior to os-bs, as it
will let you boot from the second disk.

All of these are available on ftp.coe.montana.edu:/tmp, I asked for them to
be picked up by the FreeBSD people for the utilities section, but I'm not
sure that's happened yet, or if it will.

Actually, I don't have bootany available, but all the rest of the stuff
is there.  (BSDI uses bootany, which is what I had originally installed).
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu