From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 11:06:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA00801 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00792 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00701; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:07:04 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:07:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: paulc@seas.ucla.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddrive partition In-Reply-To: <9607091904.AA35059@lightning.seas.ucla.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jul 1996 paulc@seas.ucla.edu wrote: > I have a 1GB SCSI drive, partitioned into 3 drives. > First is 100MB (primary) for dos programs; the other two are in > an extended partition. Within the extended partiton, I created 2 logical > paritions, 500MB (win95) and 400MB (potential UNIX); respectively > C:\ D:\ E:\ > > When I ran FIPS, indicates only two drives, I guess > the 100MB and the 900MB. If I continue with splitting the 2nd drive, will > that kill my win95? I would guess so. I don't think FIPS will split extended partitions successfully. I believe it was intended to be used on primary partitions only. > I'm new to installing UNIX, can you give me a step by step procedure or > at least giveme some hints as to how to proceed. Back up everything important, wipe everything, install Win95, install FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major