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From: lowell@epilogue.com (Lowell Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: splitting a large DOS partition (HELP)
Date: 1 Feb 95 11:20:56
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In-reply-to: dbaker@concorde.neosoft.com's message of 1 Feb 1995 02:29:22 GMT
dbaker@concorde.neosoft.com (Daniel Baker) writes:
Keith Wiles (keith@iphase.com) wrote:
: I have a system with one large DOS partition. I would like to split
: this partition, so that I can install another operating system after
: the DOS partition. I remember a DOS utility that would do this for
: you and fix up the DOS partition as if it was all ways this size, but
: for the life of me I can not find it anywhere. I have look in FAQ's
: that I found, but no luck. Could someone please point me to the
: location and name of this program.
fdisk -- it comes with dos. Usually, the OS can split your disk for you,
which is usually better...
Umm... no, if the DOS partition is in use, fdisk will wipe it out if
you try to change its size. The program I used just last week in
setting up my new FreeBSD system was called fips [not to be confused
with the (U.S.) Federal Information Processing Standards Publications
(FIPS PUBS)], and it did this job nicely. That is, the disk was set up
as a 1GB DOS partition, and fips let me shrink it down to a small
piece of the disk and then assign the rest of that space to my BSD
filesystem.
Archie turned up a number of sources for what appears to be this same
program: it's in most of the SimTel mirrors as fips11.zip. Also, it
appears to be included with the DOS tools for all of the free Unices
(e.g., ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com/.11/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/fips11.zip)
On the other hand, I don't think I would've trusted any program to do
this to my disk if it weren't for the fact that I didn't have anything
installed yet on said disk. You pays your money and you takes yer
chances.
Be well.
Lowell Gilbert
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Lowell Gilbert lowell@epilogue.com