From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 30 21:27:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA18075 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA18070 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00695; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:27:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Brian N. Handy" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fips from win95 In-Reply-To: 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 Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > 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? If it complained about the partition type, then you're running FAT32 and FIPS won't help you. You'll have to get Partition Magic to manipulate the partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo