Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:44:59 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: andrew7782@hotmail.com (Andrew Koester) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without partition? Message-ID: <200105152044.QAA02306@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <F62sca0ZkfzDskqC5Et00008183@hotmail.com> from Andrew Koester at "May 15, 2001 03:48:58 pm"
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If you have the FreeBSD CD's I think it might still be on the first one. Or try doing a search for it on Google. If you have no luck mail me back and I can probably send it as an attachment. Make sure you read the README. Ian As told by, Andrew Koester > Where can I get that program? > > > From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> > To: Andrew7782@hotmail.com (Andrew Koester) > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without partition? > Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:35:34 -0400 (EDT) > > No. You will need a BSD partition. What you can do is use a utility > called FIPS that allows you to shrink a FAT32 partition. Make sure you read > the README for it. I've used FIPS on a few occasions and have never ruined > the Windows partion. > > Ian > > As told by, Andrew Koester > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > I run two windows operating systems (Windows ME + Windows 2000 > Professional) and when we received the computer, the whole thing was > converted to native Microsoft FAT-32 before we got it. In other words, I > can't partition the disk. Is there a way to install FreeBSD on my system > without creating a partition and still load my other OS's (even through a > DOS command or such)? Thank you. > > > > Andrew Koester > > Andrew7782@hotmail.com > > > -- > Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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