From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 13:45:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6544437B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust89.tnt2.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.90.89]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07619; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02306; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:44:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105152044.QAA02306@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without partition? In-Reply-To: from Andrew Koester at "May 15, 2001 03:48:58 pm" To: andrew7782@hotmail.com (Andrew Koester) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:44:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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