From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 17:24:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www0i.netaddress.usa.net (www0i.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C83CA14EF8 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:24:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from click2000usa@netscape.net) Received: (qmail 27126 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Nov 1999 01:24:09 -0000 Message-ID: <19991114012409.27125.qmail@www0i.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.38 by www0i for [165.247.43.227] via web-mailer(M3.3.1.96) on Sun Nov 14 01:24:09 GMT 1999 Date: 13 Nov 99 17:24:09 PST From: Arnold Shcherban To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.3.1.96) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My personal needs and reasons prompt me to get Freebsd installed from DOS= partition, using Green Bay CD-ROMs I purchased. = Now,I defragmented the hard drive with primary DOS partition on it, but when I tried to FIPS it from boot floppy, following the FIPS' instructions, I got the message telling me the defragmented DOS partition= still had some data at the end of it. I could not figure out what data/fi= les, and how I was supposed to delete, or unstall. I tried to disable virtual memory before running FIPS, but then FIPs refused to work, compalaining on not having enough free space to execute.= I would really appreciate your e-mail help. If you do this, please make your instructions as detailed, as you feel possible. Respectfully yours, A. Shcherban = = ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message