Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 21:40:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: naming my machine & deleting the old FreeBSD partition Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980514211236.16754A-100000@echonyc.com>
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I put in the new hard drive. Thank you all for your help. I intalled Windows NT and FreeBSD 2.2.5 on the new drive, and still have 2.2.2 and Windows95 on the first hard drive. I have two questions: Where do I name my machine? I may have had a chance to do so in the sysinstall. Is there some way I can do it from the command-line? I tried running the make-hostname script in /etc/namedb but I didn't have permission to do so. I figured that if root can't do it, it's meant to be done some other way. Once I have 2.2.5 configured well enough, I won't need the .5 gb of hard drive space that 2.2.2 is now occupying. I would like to give the space back to Windows95. I could delete the partition with fdisk, either from DOS or /stand/sysinstall (couldn't I?). Is there any way I could give the space back to my C: drive without backing up the C: drive, deleting the C: drive's partition, re-creating it at the new size and re-installing everything?. This is the reverse of the situation described by Antoine BEAUPRE yesterday. I am hoping that the soluction might be simpler than it would be going the other way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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