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From: cawood@unixg.ubc.ca (Stephen Cawood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Somedy,please help me
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:49:10 GMT
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It's never too late to reformat. You can always use the DOS program
FDISK to format the disk and then reinstall Windows. But beware, this
erases everything.

Cawood

gordon@albury.net.au wrote:

>I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my Windows 95 computer. I have 2 202MB
>hard drive, but one is not enough to hold everything. I created a FreeBSD
>partition using the fips.exe program in the /tools directory and the
>install program, but it is too small. The documentation says I can delete
>it, but how? Win95 seems to think it is a 3rd hard drive and comes up
>with the message "This device is not connected properly". What do I do?

>All replies would be greatly appreciated, send to gordon@albury.net.au.
>Thanks, Stephen Gordon

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