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Subject: Re: partitioning hd
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If you have PartiationMagic, there is no reason to use fips.  It's a sort of 
"poor-man's PartitionMagic", so you just exit.

As for how to arrange the disk, FreeBSD requires a primary partition.

I can't make sense of the FIPS output; I'd try fdisk or PartitionMagic to see 
if they make any more sense.  My *guess* is that you have an extended with 
five subparts, of which only one is used.  If that's the case, delete all the 
empty logicals, and then shrink the extended to the size of the remaining 
partition.

Then start the FreeBSD install; it is easiest to allocate the FreeBSD slice 
with FreeBSD itself, not with FIPS or anything else.

On Saturday 21 July 2001 09:26, fe wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have recently obtained a set of FreeBSD 4.3 (on CD-ROMs) since I am
> seriously interested to see if FreeBSD offers an opportunity for me to live
> without windows, but wishing to install it I get confronted with FIPS,
> which shows a primary FAT32 partition and an extended part, and offers the
> opportunity to repartition the extended part, yet, as the table below
> shows, part of it is used already. I have used PartitionMagic to split up
> the 30Gb hard disk (on a Vaio f809):
>
> C
> 7,295.1 Mb
> Primary
> Windows 2000
> D
> 3,302.4 Mb
> Extended
> data
> (E)
> (CD)
>
>
> F
> 5,004.6 Mb
>
> Empty
> G
> 5,004.6 Mb
>
> Empty
> H
> 5,004.6 Mb
>
> Empty
> I
> 3,000.3 Mb
>
> Empty
>
> Is it possible to get the installation procedure to install FreeBSD onto
> either the F, G, H, slice without it ruining my nicely laid out partition
> table, and wrecking my data partition? Or should I transfer all data of the
> logical D part to C, and repartition the extended part with the help of
> FIPS? Should the FreeBSD slice also be primary? Obviously, the first option
> would definitely be preferable to me. The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey
> offers no help in this matter, so I would be very grateful for any
> suggestions I can get. Thank very much.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> FE.

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