Nondestructive Hard Disk Partitioning with FIPS
FIPS, which stands for First (nondestructive) Interactive Partition Splitting, is a partitioning program designed to run under DOS or Windows in DOS mode. It splits an existing DOS partition into two at the point you specify. You can then use the new partition it creates as the space for FreeBSD. Note that FIPS works only with DOS-style partitions (FAT16 or FAT32). FIPS does not work with Windows NT/2000/XP NTFS partitions, nor does it work with Linux Ext2FS/Ex+3FS partitions. Finally, those running OS/2 need to be aware that FIPS does not work with HPFS partitions, either.
FIPS has a couple of limitations:
It cannot split an extended DOS partition, only a primary one. Extended DOS partitions are ...
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