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Date:      Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:40:58 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, davidoweir3@yahoo.co.uk
Subject:   Re: Server set up
Message-ID:  <20100115234058.GA89060@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4B50ED69.9070106@daleco.biz>
References:  <225661.56209.qm@smtp134.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20100115212043.GA88211@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4B50ED69.9070106@daleco.biz>

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:34:17PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> >Of course, if you plan to dual boot FreeBSD along with the existing
> >installation of W98, then you need enough disk for both of them.
> >Probably 20 Gbytes each as a minimum.  More is nicer.
> >
> >The most common free one is gparted which you can download and
> >burn to a CD from the net.  Just do a Google search for it.
> >There are other free ones.  Two limited ones come with FreeBSD.
> >
> >I don't remember back to W98.  Does it use NTFS file system type?
> >It the Windos file system is of type NTFS, most of the free partition
> >utilities will not work.    I think that gparted is supposed to,
> >but I haven't tried it on that.   
> 
> NTFS comes with "NT" versions of Windows, that is, NT, Windows 2000,
> and everything since then.  W95 and W98 used FAT filesystems.  Fat32
> was the default for Win98 IIRC.

Probably right.  Sounds likely.

////jerry


> 
> KDK
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