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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news13.agis.net!agis!newspeer1.agis.net!agis!news1.agis.net!agis!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!skylink!usenet From: phattman@Phatt.daddy Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Partitioning the hard drive. Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 23:50:35 GMT Organization: Skylink Networks (http://www.skylink.net/) Lines: 12 Message-ID: <55tsdu$8t1@news.skylink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lvmax2-ppp059.skylink.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I've just gotten interested in using FreeBSD and I'm a little sketchy on how to install it. You need to have like a whole new partition for it but i've heard stories about people partitioning hard drives and it hasn't worked for the best. Is there a safe way to partition the hard drive or an easy way? I run windows 95 and I want to put it on the same hard drive. If you partition the hard drive and it screws up somehow, does it affect the other files, i.e. corrupt them, denying access to them, lose them, can't get into system or something? ddixon@skylink.net