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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.itjit.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupid newbie tricks Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:57:13 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31C8E839.41C67EA6@cet.co.jp> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> <8791dl9qh7.fsf@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> <4q6qe3$3na@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> <31C762EC.3F54BC7E@ucs.mun.ca> <31C83C92.646@cpmt2.cyberport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Aaron Shoal wrote: > > I'm having some installation problems. Mainly with partitions, like > is there any way that I can use the 500 unused megs sitting on my new > hard drive to set up free bsd? It's already partitioned as an extended > dos, for windows 95, but I thought fips would let me resize it.. I > guess I was wrong.. Any suggestion short of killing the entire drive > and starting over? (If this would be more better suited to a different > newsgroup, I apologize) > I use a software called Partition Magic from PowerQuest and it's well worth it. I managed to get (Win95|FreeBSD|UnixWare|WinNT) going so far a couple of 2GB disks. I use System Commander from V Communications to boot the OSes. You can get these from http://www.redhat.com. Don't buy Linux though. ;-) -mike