Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:41:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Todd 'Taco' Hansen" <taco@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu> To: stephen_davies@postmaster.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Windows 95 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212123938.3910A-100000@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <802565A9.0035A4CD.00@uks.postmaster.co.uk>
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you need to use fips or something like that to resize your partition. fdisk will make you delete and create two new partitions, which will lose your data. I am not sure, but if you have win95 with a fat32 fs, fips won't be able to help you. -taco On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 stephen_davies@postmaster.co.uk wrote: > I am due to buy a PII233 with a 6G disk. > > This will come pre-installed with Windows 95. I would like to put Unix on > the > same disk and have the option to dual boot. I have read the FAQs but I was > wondering if this could be achieved by using fdisk. > > What I had in mind was to create 2 partitions with fdisk and then install > FreeBSD on the second . > > Does this sound feasible or is there an easier way of doing this. Also what > > size requirements are there. My major concern is deleting any Windows > software > that I will have on the preinstalled machine as I may not have backup CDs > for > these products. > > Any help would be appreciated - > Steve > > ___________________________________ > If this is a spam, please report it by forwarding to spam@postmaster.co.uk. > To sign up for a free email account, visit http://www.postmaster.co.uk. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message > -- "Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!" -- W. C. Fields Todd Hansen, KD6YPS http://sehplib.ucsd.edu/~tshansen/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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