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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:53:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marcos Viterbo <mavit@vecom.com.br>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MS-DOS partition to FreeBSD slice
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113115301.2209U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34635AA6.861A3775@vecom.com.br>

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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Marcos Viterbo wrote:

> I have a 340MB MS-DOS extended partition in my second IDE HD (wd1s5) and
> it is no longer necessary. I would like to change its system for 165
> (I'm running a dual boot machine with windows95 and FreeBSD 2.2.2). How
> should I proceed?

Just delete the partition using DOS fdisk then set it up as a separate
slice.  I don't have this specifically documented yet, but you can use
http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat as a guide. I'd suggest using
sysinstall to help you.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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