From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 11 17:05:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA18150 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@fddigate.netcetera.dk [194.192.97.2] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA18141 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id CAA07070 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 02:03:45 +0200 Received: by swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA06773; 12 Oct 97 02:04:03 +0100 From: leifn@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 11 Oct 97 13:17:09 +0100 Subject: FIPS Message-ID: <14a_9710120204@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Organization: Fidonet: UNIX-sysadm søger job To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11 Oct 97 08:39:33 silentbob@home.com (2:234/49.99) wrote to Leif Neland regarding FIPS in area "freebsd-questions" s> I want to install FreeBSD into a second partition on my secondary s> master HDD and I wanted to create that partion using FIPS but s> when I run it and try to do this it says "ERROR: LAST CYLINDER s> NOT FREE" while this is rather self explanitory how do I fix this s> problem will a simple DEFRAG solve the problem?? Yes. You might have to change attributes on some files, i.e. remove sys/hidden/ro, so defrag will move the files. Norton mirror e.g. saves a copy of the system area in a hidden file at the end of the disk. Leif Neland --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk