From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 00:06:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA04747 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04742 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA16060; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:06:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gavin Buffington cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: <199709261223.HAA03094@scatcat.fhsu.edu> 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 Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Gavin Buffington wrote: > I'm not sure where to send this question if this reaches the wrong > person could you please tell me who to send this to? > Here is my question: I recently got a new machine, pentium II 266 > etc... with a 5 GB hard drive. It was (and still) is my intention > to split the hard drive roughly in half and run win95 (yuk) on one > half and freeBSD on the other. Here is the problem: when I run the > freeBSD repartitioning utility FIPS it bombs. I'm assuming because > I am running have a 32bit filesystem such that win95 can deal with > the 5GB drive. Do you have any suggestions on how I can work around > this? 1) Use Partition Magic instead. 2) Unless your BIOS is new and spiffy, you won't be able to boot your FreeBSD slice unless it's the first one on the disk, then you won't be able to boot your Win95 slice. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major