Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 18:15:22 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez <victor@usac.edu.gt>, FreeBSD Questions mailing list <questions@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Assigning more disk space... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970501181230.1140B-100000@aak.anchorage.net> In-Reply-To: <33684817.69E9@barcode.co.il>
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > When I installed FreeBSD in my machine, it has Windows95, so I used fips > > and assigned half of the disk space to freebsd and the other half to > > windows. Now, I want to throw away Win95 and assign its disk space to > > FreeBSD. Also, I am running out of swap (I used the defaults when > > installing), so probably I need to assign aditional swap space too. What > > is the best way to do both things? My FBSD version is 2.1.5. > > This is pretty tough. Having two FreeBSD slices on the same hard disk is > a bit of a problem because only one of them can be bootable, and by > murphy's law, if you delete your Win95 partition and put a FreeBSD slice > instead, it will render your old FreeBSD slice unbootable. I'd suggest why would it necessarily render the old slice unbootable? the bootstrapping doesn't care what kind of partition/slice it loads ... ? you just wouldn't want booteasy to try to boot an un-bootable partition. why can't you just reformat and label the 95 partition from FBSD, and add it to fstab? > backing up and reinstalling FreeBSD to take the whole disk. You may also > try to create a FreeBSD slice instead of the Win95 slice, and if it > doesn't boot, install FreeBSD into that slice, and then modifying it to > use everything but the root filesystem from the second slice, but I'd > rate that as dangerous at best. > > Nadav ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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