From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 19:24:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cassius.its.unimelb.edu.au (cassius.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.6.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC6E15458 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k.ngeow1@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au) Received: from localhost (s_koyin@localhost) by cassius.its.unimelb.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18822; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:22:55 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:22:55 +1100 (EST) From: Ivan Ngeow X-Sender: s_koyin@cassius.its.unimelb.edu.au Reply-To: rimb@geocities.com To: Arnold Shcherban Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <19991114012409.27125.qmail@www0i.netaddress.usa.net> 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 There's probably some hidden/system files still lying on the end of the DOS slice. you can run "defrag.exe /f /h" which will move hidden files too, but I doubt that system files will be moved. One way is to set all files' attributes to "-h -r -s" using attrib.exe (or Explorer). tip: the chkdsk.exe command tells you how many hidden/system files there are on the DOS partition. Ivan > 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/files, > and how I was supposed to delete, or unstall. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message