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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:01:04 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Patrick Anthofer <pata@teleweb.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Windows NT and Free BSD
Message-ID:  <19990206120104.C79100@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <36BAEBB2.3BB7371E@teleweb.at>; from Patrick Anthofer on Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 02:01:38PM %2B0100
References:  <36BAEBB2.3BB7371E@teleweb.at>

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On Friday,  5 February 1999 at 14:01:38 +0100, Patrick Anthofer wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have looked at your site quite thouroughly, but I didn't find
> information on running FREE BSD on a Windows NT Server machine.
> I might have overseen information on that; if so I'm sorry for
> bothering you.
>
> I have an Intel Pentium 133 / 32MB Ram and 2 HD with 2 partitions each.
> One Harddrive has got the NTFS and the other one has got FAT.
> I was wondering what would happen if I installed FREE BSD on one of the
> FAT Partitions. Would a MULTI OS BOOT Manager be created or something
> like that?

You can't install FreeBSD on a FAT partition.  It needs a FreeBSD
partition.  You can overwrite the FAT, of course, but then it's not
FAT any more.

Greg
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