Corrections?

[Remko Lodder]

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 I am wondering if this is old/outdated information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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