From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 14:59:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA18086 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:59:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from militzer.me.tuns.ca (militzer.me.tuns.ca [134.190.50.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA18075 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca) Received: from localhost (bemfica@localhost) by militzer.me.tuns.ca (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA26499 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:00:46 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:00:46 -0400 (AST) From: Antonio Bemfica To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD on a slice on WinNT machine Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA18079 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I volunteered to setup FreeBSD for a friend. He has a fast Pentium running WinNT and lots of disk space (one 8Gbyte drive divided in four partitions - I'd be using one for FreeBSD) . Are there any possible pitfalls I could hopefully avoid? I've setup about a dozen FreeBSD boxes so far, so I'm pretty comfortable with the process. However, I've only installed to empty drives or on partitions on Win95 machines. Also, will he be able to access files on the WinNT partitions? I know how to mount a Win95 partition so FreeBSD can access it, but I'm not sure about WinNT - I have no experience with it at all. How about Boot Manager? Will WinNT work after I install FreeBSD's boot manager? Any help would be most appreciated. Antonio -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio Bemfica, DalTech, Dalhousie U. | Hay épocas hechas para diezmar los => Support free software, use FreeBSD | rebaños, confundir las lenguas => http://www.FreeBSD.org | y dispersar las tribus. A.C.