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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD install on a win95??
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 11:42:03 -0700
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Srikanth Konda wrote:
> 
> Could some post details or give pointers regarding deletion of the
> slice(extra from fips) and Partion Editor and Disk Labeling during the
> FreeBSD installation (2.1)
> 

Doesn't Win95 still have an FDISK facility? Use it to delete the extra 
"primary" partition. Then the space will be available for FreeBSD.

Ken