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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        aschwa5@po-box.mcgill.ca
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing *after* win95
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971024121720.6538G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <344FB498.1B6D@po-box.mcgill.ca>

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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 aschwa5@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote:

> I have win95 installed on my one 4.3 gig hard drive.  the partition
> takes up the whole drive, and I am using FAT32.  
> 	How should I go about creating a partition for freBSD?  When I run
> fdisk, it mentions that FAT32 is used, and that `if you create a
> partition from the original, you will not be able to use it with other
> operating systems'...
> 
> 	Any ideas on how I should proceed?  Thanks for any help you can give.  

You need to split off some totally unallocated space for the FreeBSD
slice.  The FreeBSD installer will make the partition type it needs.

> please e-mail replies to mbatch@po-box.mcgill.ca

Your return address didn't come through properly for some reason.  Check
your mailer setup.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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