Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:15:25 +0300 From: Igor Roboul <igorr@sysadm.stc> To: Paul and Jean Molzahn <pmolzah1@tampabay.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP Message-ID: <20020226161525.GC22181@sysadm.stc> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020222143135.00b14898@pop-server.tampabay.rr.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020222143135.00b14898@pop-server.tampabay.rr.com>
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:57:16PM -0500, Paul and Jean Molzahn wrote: > I have Windows XP. so am limited in using DOS. I have Partition Magic and > plan for it to make a suitable partition for Freebsd - Do I need to format > that partition (& how big should it be?) as FAT, FAT32, NTFS, LINUX, > .....? and does it need to be a primary partition? If I use the CD > installation, will it "find" the partition prepared by Partition Magic? I > am in the process of reviewing your online guidebook, but would appreciate > any additional guidance to enable me to safely put your OS on my > computer. I learned about Freebsd from my LangaListPlus newsletter and am > very interested in using it. You do not need format this partition. Just make sure that you have freem unpartitioned space on disk. But as far as I know FreeBSD need one Primary partition (at least). FreeBSD intaller will create FreeBSD partition table in this one primary DOS partition (slice in FreeBSD terms) -- Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center http://www.speechpro.com http://www.speechpro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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