Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:09:16 -0600 From: "J. Mike Needham" <jmneedha@sprintparanet.com> To: "Mobile-FreeBSD (E-mail)" <mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Installation Question on NT Message-ID: <000101bf74b2$bac66c70$ea3510ac@spr96864.hq.sprint.com>
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Hello: I am sure this is covered in the FAQs though I couldn't find it, so I submit it to the group. I am wishing to make a mobile install of FBSD/PAO with the machine dual booting WinNT. The reason I have to do this off the bat is this is a work requirement. The NT is functioning properly and I have set up partitions for FBSD using PowerQuest Partition Magic 5.0. I will need to load everything via the NT Bootloader. The partitions are setup as follows on my 10 GB Hard Drive: 2581 MB NTFS (My existing resized WinNT partition) 2040 MB FAT16 (to be used as a common area for files between the two OS's) 4965 MB FreeSpace (Future home of FreeBSD) ____ 9586 MB Total The background information above brings me to the install question. I have downloaded FBSD 3.3 Release and PAO files that go with it. I know the installer looks for the files on c:\freebsd which is my NTFS partition, the drive letters for the two partitions being C (NTFS)and D (FAT16)respectively. Can you install FBSD from an NTFS partition or is there a way to move the install directory to the D partition and direct the installer to look for the FBSD files there? Thanks and sorry for the long winded explanation, but I felt the background information was important to alleviate the sure-to-come responses about why I would want to do this ;-) Hope someone can help. J. Mike Needham Technical Solutions Consultant Sprint Paranet-Kansas City jmneedha@sprintparanet.com pager: 1-800-724-3508 J. Mike Needham Technical Solutions Consultant Sprint Paranet-Kansas City jmneedha@sprintparanet.com pager: 1-800-724-3508 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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