From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 25 06:40:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03525 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 06:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA03520 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 06:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA03772; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:41:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA00899; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:41:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:41:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: hacking group cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd In-Reply-To: <199707251308.GAA13129@f64.hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, hacking group wrote: [this belongs on -questions, not -hackers] > i want a unix opraiting system but all the ones i heard of need > partition and i do not want to format my drive > so please tell me if freebsd need partition. Yes, if you read some of the FreeBSD installation literature you will find that you do need a separate partition for FreeBSD. However, you may not need to format your drive. The fips utility is available (see ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/tools/) to reparition your hdd with forcing you to format it. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk