From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 19:50:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09064 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA09059 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <53027(4)>; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:49:39 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by mailhost.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA21088; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:48:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA00531; Mon, 1 Sep 97 22:48:36 EDT Message-Id: <9709020248.AA00531@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Doug White Cc: "Brian N. Handy" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fips from win95 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:27:45 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:48:35 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > > > So, I try booting up the PC into MSDOS mode and run fips. Now, I tried > > this once on my laptop and it didn't work -- hung the machine. I tried it > > on this PC here and I had it complain about ... oh, I can't remember now, > > it didn't like the partition type I think. I don't have the exact error > > message, I'll get that later... > > > > Bottom line is, have people done this from win95 or am I just screwed? > > If it complained about the partition type, then you're running FAT32 and > FIPS won't help you. You'll have to get Partition Magic to manipulate the > partition. > Maybe not... from fips (last year some time), it doesn't understand some of the ofther fat16 partitions (I bought a laptop around thanksgiving which had a paritition type of (I think) '0xE'. I re-ided it (I think) and I was fine (but this was a royal pain in the arse). > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com The Feynman problem solving Algorithm 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer Murray Gel-mann in the NY Times