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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partitioning the hard drive.
Date: 13 Nov 1996 19:49:52 GMT
Organization: FreeBSD makes fun
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In article <55tsdu$8t1@news.skylink.net>,
	phattman@Phatt.daddy writes:
> 
> 	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?

You need free room on the harddisk to install FreeBSD. If you only
have one large Win95 partition, then remove some unneeded things and
after that run a disk compression program as defrag. That moves
everything at the beginning of your Win95 partition.

After that run the utility 'fips', a harddisk repartitioner, you can
find it on ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/,,,, or on the FreeBSD cr-rom.

That allows you to get some space for a 2nd partition. After that you
have free space and during FreeBSD installation you simply populate that
free space. Voila. Please read the README file of the fips utility
very careful and please to a backup of your data first !

	Andreas ///

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