Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:40:48 +0100 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: Jim Pattison <clanphaedirean@gmail.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Corrections? Message-ID: <20061215064048.GC11040@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <9a769ec80612142158u6238edf2xdcc13d3fcbdae77@mail.gmail.com> References: <9a769ec80612142158u6238edf2xdcc13d3fcbdae77@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:58:29PM -0700, Jim Pattison wrote:
> I am new to BSD, and am just learning to use ports, etc. I have been
> reading the FreeBSD handbook, and in section 2.2.3.1 Disk Layouts for
> the i386 it states this: "The tools directory on the CDROM contains
> two free software tools which can carry out this task, namely FIPS and
> PResizer. Documentation for both of these is available in the same
> directory. FIPS, PResizer, and PartitionMagic can resize FAT16 and
> FAT32 partitions." I am wondering if this is old/outdated information
> that hasn't been expunged and if it is something that you will have to
> correct?
>
> I am using PC-BSD 1.2 based on FreeBSD 6.1 and have used find, locate,
> and whereis and am told by find that there are no such directories or
> files called FIPS or PResizer. Since this isn't a FreeBSD install, I
> looked in the ports to see if I could find them but they are not
> available there either. If the above information is still correct,
> could you please tell me which CD I will have to download in order to
> find these two programs. Thank You, goatman
> _______________________________________________
Hello Jim,
First of all welcome to FreeBSD, I hope it meets your expectations
and more :-). Thank you very much for considering to email us of
potential short-comings, things that we might be able to use to
improve our product.
For your question you can best look into the URL I will put in below,
the reference here is to the official FreeBSD release CD's and can
be found on any official ftp mirror for FreeBSD. PC-BSD and for example
FreeSBIE use FreeBSD as their foundation, but I can imagine that they
strip out certain parts or do not install certain parts of the Operating
System because of preference or things like that.
The URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/
I hope this helps you, if you have additional questions, please refer
to the freebsd-questions mailinglist, which is even better suited for
your question; you can find the mailinglist on the same location you
found this mailinglist: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions.
Goodluck!
Best regards,
Remko
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Kind regards,
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FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org
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