Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:42:54 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Message-ID: <20051227124254.6e3d2301@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <20051227131407.BA44.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <001301c60b00$7d3fb330$c5ddfea9@storyopom7s0ow> <20051227103904.6cb83f0e@grokwell.org> <20051227131407.BA44.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:21:26 -0500 Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM > "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> > Subject: Re: Quick Install Question > Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 > > "Daniel Goldberg" <dgoldberg@tarshis.com> wrote: > > > > > Dear FreeBSD- > [..] > > > > 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition. If you want > > FreeBSD to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 > > format instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the > > entire disk as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to > > resize the existing Windows partition. > > > > 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > > > > Best of luck, > > > > Andrew Gould > > ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** > On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: > > Perhaps I am missing something here, but I have WinXP installed on one > of my computers. The HD is formatted with NTFS, not fat32. Using > Samba, i can both read and write to this disk. > > Maybe I am missing something from the original posters message. > > -- > Gerard Seibert > gerard@seibercom.net > Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould
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