From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 20: 2:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E33637BF9A for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 20:02:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from entropy@dingoblue.net.au) Received: from sagan.tpn (adlax2-231.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.52.231]) by mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19399 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:00:47 +1000 Received: (from entropy@localhost) by sagan.tpn (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA97933 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:33:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from entropy) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:33:31 +0930 From: shaun To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacing Windows 95 with Free BSD Message-ID: <20000704123331.A97913@dingoblue.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: shaun , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000704000548.26895.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000704000548.26895.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com>; from the_smart_guys@yahoo.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:05:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:05:48PM -0700, Todd Miller wrote: > HELP! I have Windows 95, and I want to replace my OS with Free BSD. But I don’t want to lose all personal data on my hard disk. Can you help me? > If you have a large enough drive, you can defrag it to keep all data together, then use fips to split that one large partition into one for win and one for FreeBSD. If you just want FreeBSD, try to get hold of a small secondhand hard drive (eg 200mb- around $10.00), install this and back up the data to it. You can then use your main drive and retrieve the data from the small one at your leasure. This works well for me shaun -- Shaun Branden; shaunbranden@dingoblue.net.au; icq:10469563 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message