From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 23:22:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA11730 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 23:22:59 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA11714 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 23:22:56 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HTA40BN37K004RSQ@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 08:20:59 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id IAA05810; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 08:33:01 +0200 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 08:33:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: installation In-reply-to: <199507250305.UAA19180@ix6.ix.netcom.com> from "Fred Adorno" at Jul 24, 95 08:05:58 pm To: fadorno@ix.netcom.com (Fred Adorno) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199507250633.IAA05810@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1084 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have a 540mb drive which is not partitioned. I am using the whole > drive under DOS. I do have 150mb disk space available. How do I > proceed with installation of FreeBSD 2.0.5? I am new to Unix and I > wish to use this to tutor myself asap. Should I get the manual's from > O'Reilly? There is a disk partition shrinking program called fips(? - I believe). It may bee in the tools directory on the CD or on ftp.freebsd.org. You can run it under DOS. Sometimes it fails when you have unmovable files at the end of the partition. You can attrib -r -h -s them. Not that this method is unsupported and not the 'official' way to do it but in many cases it works. The safest would be to backup your DOS files and repartition (FDISK) the disk. Afterwards use the normal FreeBSD install method to partition the FreeBSD slice. > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jul 18 14:49:19 MET DST 1995 kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de: /usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386