From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 16:14:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518DD37B617 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10513; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:14:27 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39A1B7D1.2DA841D6@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:14:25 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Mailman , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Is it possible to install FreeBSD 4.1 to a FAT32 partition? References: <000a01c00bbf$9cb2da80$66019bc0@warrensamd400> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Warren, > Linux has a way of installing to a FAT32 HD called UMSDOS that allows it to > run off a Windows partition...It's nice. Problem is that I don't have any > extra space left on my HD, and I can't repartition, for the obvious reason > that it'd format my HD, and I don't want to lose Windows. There is a tool called Partition Magic, which will enable you to repartition your disk without data loss. If you only have FAT-partitions on your disk, you can also use fips, which is free. Try downloading from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/tools/fips20.zip Note that FreeBSD will need a primary partition to be installed. Chances are you will be better off, purchasing a second hard drive. Depends of the free space on your existing disk. Something like UMSDOS doesn´t exist in FreeBSD as far as I know. Someone please correct me, if I´m wrong. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message