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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get partition Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 20:12:11 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3204150B.34E5@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3202FAC7.371B@aloha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) DuckHunter wrote: > > Like I said before, I can't partition my (up till now) Win95 ide disk. > All the space I can get for a FreeBSD partition is 1 meg, but I've got > 660 megs free. I've tried Fdisk and it won't work because of some > problem with Win95. I don't want to format the whole disk. And FIPS > doesn't work either; it says "Last sector not free" Can anybody help? This one comes up periodically; you might want to check some recent posts on this topic. Anyway, a few things to check first: 1. Make sure you're not using a compression utility. With proces on large hard drives dropping so fast, you shouldn't need it anyway, and it can lead to serious problems. 2. Defrag your hard drive completely. If the stuff at the back end of the drive is locked in place and won't move, turn off the swap file in Win95 and then defrag again. If you have files marked read-only or hidden, you'll have to turn that off as well. 3. Now you can run the FIPS utility. Leave enough free space in your Win95 partition for the swap file and reaqsonable additional storage. You can enable the swap file again after FIPS is done. 4. Run DOS fdisk to remove the "extra" primary DOS partition created by FIPS. 5. Proceed to install FreeBSD by booting from the boot floppy and following the prompts and procedures. 6. Do not try to mount the DOS/Win95 partition in FreeBSD: FIPS can't change the cluster size and that can cause some bodacious problems. If you *must* mount the DOS partition and access it, you'll have to kill the DOS partition with fdisk, recreate it again, and then reformat before installing Win95. I hope this helps! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |