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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:13:41 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Luiz Lins <luigi@vecom.com.br>
Cc:        djv@bedford.net, Daniel Wood <wooddan@mhtc.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual Boot
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980616091023.6321A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <35855895.B0B2AB37@vecom.com.br>

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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Luiz Lins wrote:

> CyberPeasant wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel Wood wrote:
> > > Is there a way that my PC can be sit up to boot either BSD or Dos
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > Without any major reformating of the drives.
> > 
> > No.  FBSD will want its own partition, I believe.
> It's highly recommended FBSD partition, but you can install it in a FAT
> (DOS) partition.

That's not correct. You can install *FROM* a FAT partition, but
FreeBSD requires it's own partition. When you've installed FreeBSD,
fdisk (DOS) will report the partition type as `unknown'.
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