From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 15 04:25:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04480 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 04:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04471 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 04:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA18166; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:25:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id HAA12193; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:25:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id HAA05078; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:25:48 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 07:25:47 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Ken Seggerman cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: naming my machine & deleting the old FreeBSD partition In-Reply-To: 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, 14 May 1998, Ken Seggerman wrote: > 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. Try /etc/rc.conf. It think you'll find what you want at hostname=... > 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?). If you don't need it, you can delete it with sysinstall, DOG's fdisk, or whatever... > 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?. There's an "experimental" program in the tools/ directory ^^^^^^^^^^^^----> Could someone correct me one that one? (ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/tools/) called "presizer" who permits you to move around and resize partitions. Use with caution. You're better (safer) with Partition Magic (commercial). > This is the reverse of the situation described by Antoine BEAUPRE > yesterday. My problem is that these programs are made to resize FAT (16 or 32) partitions. Which excludes FreeBSD by def. > I am hoping that the soluction might be simpler than it would be going the > other way. Very much simpler as you can see. All you got to do is get yourself a copy of Partition Magic, ( which I have) or Presizer, and enter the new partition size. ( and pray the lord for no electrical twitch!) +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message