From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 30 01:11:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA03127 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA03118 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA08800; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:12:03 -0700 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:12:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fips from win95 Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey folks, I want to use fips to repartition a win95 hard drive so's I can have a FreeBSD partition. In the past, I've always used fips from an msdos floppy disk to do this. In my current circumstances (on travel and away from my box o' goodies) I don't have my msdos floppies. So, I try booting up the PC into MSDOS mode and run fips. Now, I tried this once on my laptop and it didn't work -- hung the machine. I tried it on this PC here and I had it complain about ... oh, I can't remember now, it didn't like the partition type I think. I don't have the exact error message, I'll get that later... Bottom line is, have people done this from win95 or am I just screwed? Thanks, Brian