Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 07:25:47 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: naming my machine & deleting the old FreeBSD partition Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980515071759.5063A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980514211236.16754A-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote:
> I put in the new hard drive. Thank you all for your help.
>
> I intalled Windows NT and FreeBSD 2.2.5 on the new drive, and still have
> 2.2.2 and Windows95 on the first hard drive.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> Where do I name my machine? I may have had a chance to do so in the
> sysinstall. Is there some way I can do it from the command-line?
> I tried running the make-hostname script in /etc/namedb but I didn't have
> permission to do so. I figured that if root can't do it, it's meant to be
> done some other way.
Try /etc/rc.conf. It think you'll find what you want at hostname=...
> Once I have 2.2.5 configured well enough, I won't need the .5 gb of hard
> drive space that 2.2.2 is now occupying. I would like to give the space
> back to Windows95.
>
> I could delete the partition with fdisk, either from DOS or
> /stand/sysinstall (couldn't I?).
If you don't need it, you can delete it with sysinstall, DOG's fdisk, or
whatever...
> Is there any way I could give the space back to my C: drive without
> backing up the C: drive, deleting the C: drive's partition, re-creating it
> at the new size and re-installing everything?.
There's an "experimental" program in the tools/ directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^----> Could someone correct me one that one?
(ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/tools/) called "presizer" who
permits you to move around and resize partitions. Use with caution. You're
better (safer) with Partition Magic (commercial).
> This is the reverse of the situation described by Antoine BEAUPRE
> yesterday.
My problem is that these programs are made to resize FAT (16 or 32)
partitions. Which excludes FreeBSD by def.
> I am hoping that the soluction might be simpler than it would be going the
> other way.
Very much simpler as you can see. All you got to do is get yourself a copy
of Partition Magic, ( which I have) or Presizer, and enter the new
partition size. ( and pray the lord for no electrical twitch!)
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