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From: dbaker@concorde.neosoft.com (Daniel Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: splitting a large DOS partition (HELP)
Date: 1 Feb 1995 02:29:22 GMT
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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...

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