Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:21:06 -0500 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Chris <chris@ogden.sd27.bc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fips Message-ID: <19990411192106.C25462@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990411144715.007a9450@ogden.sd27.bc.ca>; from Chris on Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:47:15PM -0700 References: <3.0.5.32.19990411144715.007a9450@ogden.sd27.bc.ca>
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Chris <chris@ogden.sd27.bc.ca> wrote: > Hello, > I have already written in once about fips. I am trying to repartion my > hard drive so that I can install FreeBSD and keep my Windows98 in tact. I > downloaded fips.exe and created a startup disk and put fips.exe on it. I > rebooted my machine and ran fips. However, each time I run fips I get the > same error.. The program does all the diagnostics and then it gets to the > part where it says: > > Checking FAT... OK > Checking free space... OK > > And right here it gives an error that says: > > Error: Last cylinder is not free. > > bye! > > And then I am back to the command prompt. I have tried defragging and then > running fips right away but I get the same error every time. If someone > could give me some info on what could be wrong and if there is a way that I > can get around the problem. You might be using FIPS Version 1.0, which doesn't support FAT32. Unfortunately I believe the version which is on the ftp site is the old version. A newer version can be found here: http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/ Give this a shot. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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