Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:20:05 -0700 From: "Boatwright, Charles" <Charles_Boatwright@cisnc.canon.com> To: "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: PARTITION, SCARY STUFF??? Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Canon_Informatio%l=CISNCDC-961004222005Z-648@cisncdc.canon.com>
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Matt, Are you familar with the physical partition table structure? Having a good tech ref is helpful. If not, here is something to start with. If you have 5 drives (1 primary, and 4 in an extended) you might have problems. First you need space. Unfortunately, the only way to get some free space is to remove one of the logical drives. Easy, right? Yes. Success? No. You must change the size of the extended partition, which contains the logical drives. My experience is that this can be done only by deleting the extended partition, and recreating it. BUT this will delete ALL of your logical drives. I don't know a good way around this, other than doing a full backup of the DOS drives. NOTE -- I never had any luck with FIPS on extended partitions. ALSO VERY VERY VERY important. Keep a DOS BOOT disk handy. You should have a diskedit program too. Norton DE works well. If no disk edit, use a boot sector backup program. Norton Rescue or equivalent (I am not associated with Symantec, however, my $0.02 is that these tools work.) Sometimes the FreeBSD install turns OFF the startable bit in the partition entry list. For More Info consult the MS DOS 6.0 reference. M$ publication. Good luck -c >---------- >From: Matthew Brown[SMTP:darknite@global.co.za] >Sent: Friday, October 04, 1996 2:53 PM >To: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: PARTITION, SCARY STUFF??? > >Hi there, > >Before I install FreeBSD I would like to know what the best method is >to install from an anon ftp site. My HD current config is as follows... > >204Mb C: >995Mb D: E: F: G: (4 Partitions) > >I've got WIN95(unfortunately) on 'C:' and no booters on the rest. >If I install using the boot.flp floppy onto 'D:' will this mess up >drive's >original partitions and kill all my data on the D,E,F & G drives? > >...waiting to port to UNIX, > -MATT!- >.-------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- >. >| Matthew R Brown | HOLD >ON... | >| P.O. BOX 22498 | IT's COMMING TO ME >NOW... | >| Fish Hoek 7975 | YES, YES, I THINK I HAVE IT >NOW... | >| Cape Town | >... | >| Republic of South Africa | DAMN!!! LOST TO OUTSIDE >DISTRACTION! | >`-------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- >' >
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