>From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
>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.

Using DOS `defrag`, `fips11`, `pfdisk`, and `os-bs` worked for me without
data loss, but the slightly mistake could have resulted in total loss.  If
one wishes to escape to BSD from an all-MS HD, the cheapest way is to buy
another HD and swap it in.

Max