Nondestructive Hard Disk Partitioning with FIPS
FIPS is a program designed to run under DOS or Windows in DOS mode. It will split an existing DOS partition into two partitions 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 will not work with Windows NT/2000 NTFS partitions, nor will it work with Linux EXT2FS partitions. If you happen to be running OS/2, FIPS will not work with HPFS partitions, either.
FIPS has a couple of limitations that you need to be aware of:
It cannot split an extended DOS partition—only a primary one. If you are like most people running Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 98, this will not be a problem since ...
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