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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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