From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 27 9:24:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14BD014D8E for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 22965 invoked by uid 12); 27 Jun 1999 16:24:51 -0000 Message-ID: <19990627162451.22964.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: compatibility with windows\DOS In-Reply-To: <199906270441.WAA17154@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> from Jonathon Doran at "Jun 26, 1999 10:41:37 pm" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:24:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL51 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon Doran wrote: > If the entire drive is formatted for Windows, but you have enough disk > space free, you can use a tool like "FIPS" or "Partition Magic" to repartition > your disk. Once this is done, you can install FreeBSD in the new partition. And heed the warnings to backup everything before doing this.. FIPS managed to corrupt my DOS FAT irreparably, and I followed the directions to the letter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message