Subject: Re: Help
To: None <danielh@oiapoque.bol.com.br>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/08/1996 12:56:32
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Hacksaw wrote:

> While it is possible to make the two systems coexist on one hard drive,
> it requires that you repartition your hard drive. This generally can't be
> done without data loss on MS-DOS machines. It is theoretically
> possible, if you have *NO* data in the latter part of the disk. You
> might look into a program to do this repartitioning.

A combination of a disk optimizer (Speed Disk, Compress, etc.) and FIPS,
the freeware partition resizer, will handle this OK, but as pointed out,
it would be folly to attempt this without a backup.

--scott