From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:39:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16896 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16887 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:39:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00855; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:39:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:39:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Martin Von_Schantz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning In-Reply-To: <199802261726.JAA06324@f155.hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Martin Von_Schantz wrote: > I have a few questions regarding the built in "make a slice" > partition program in Freebsd. > > 1. Is it possible to make a partition without destroying all data > stored on the disk originally? > I have about 200Mb left on an 1Gb drive. If you're using FAT16, you can use `fips' from the tools/ directory. Otherwise you'll have to buy Partition Magic to resize the partitions. > 2. Do I have to have the installations in c:\freebsd\ or can I change > drive when installing from an MS-DOS partition. It must be a primary DOS partition. C: is searched by default. > 3. Which files are X stored in? And it is possible to swap to a new > version when possible? X is stored in XF86331/. You can upgrade once installed by simply extracting the new version over the old. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message