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Date:      Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:02:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "H.L." <lukh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition and installation problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906091701540.3005-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.990609101906.14672A-100000@skule.ecf>

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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, H.L. wrote:

> I have only one hard drive with win98 installed in my computer.  I want to
> buy a 2nd hard drive for FreeBSD and Linux.  I want to keep all the stuff
> in my 1st hard drive.  How can I do the partition?  Using FDISK to format
> the 2nd hard drive???  Since win98 is FAT32, Does FreeBSD recognize FAT32
> partition???

It does, and you can copy files off of it, but you cannot install FreeBSD
on it.  FreeBSD requires it's own slice type. But if you have a new disk,
simply delete any existing DOS partition the vendor may have put on there,
install FreeBSD, and have fun.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org



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