From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 11:29:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA17324 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from wakko.gil.net (keithl@wakko.gil.net [207.100.79.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA17319 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:28:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keithl@localhost) by wakko.gil.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA08297; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:29:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:29:00 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard To: Gary Fry cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Having Trouble... In-Reply-To: <32A584CE.7F94@bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy Gary, You need to shrink your DOS (Windoze95) partition. I've used FIPS.EXE to shrink. Right now DOG/WINDOZE is hoging your whole harddrive. I would advise backing up your DOG partition before you try anything - whole drives have been known to be wiped out (although I personally never seen it). You should be able to locate at ftp.freebsd.org or you can use the linux version at sunsite.unc.edu. They both run from the dos prompt so you will have to boot up dos (I don't know if running a DOG session from Windoze95 will do it) - anybody have more experience here? Hope it helps Keith keithl@gil.net On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Gary Fry wrote: > Dear whoever can answer, > I am having trouble installing FreeBSD v2.1.5 onto my computer! I have > a Packard Bell Pentium 166Mhz machine with Windows 95 installed. > Whenever I get to the point of partitioning my hard drive during the > installation of FreeBSD, fdisk says I don't have enough room to create a > partition. However, I have 1.04G out of 2.1G free space on that disk. > > Could you please tell me how: > a. I can work around ths error... > b. I can Fix this problem > c. I can install FreeBSD into my DOS partition(as is possble for > Linux(by Slackware) > - or - > d. What needs to be done period? > > I would really appreciate any answers/suggestions that you are able to > give me. > > Thanks very much! > > Gary Fry > > garyf@bellsouth.net < >