From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 12 21:51:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15640 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:51:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15635 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA19030; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:21:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA02358; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:21:38 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981213162137.V483@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:21:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: NoahFekts@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating partitions References: <7253f932.36735282@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <7253f932.36735282@aol.com>; from NoahFekts@aol.com on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:37:06AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 13 December 1998 at 0:37:06 -0500, NoahFekts@aol.com wrote: > I hear that when I goto install FBSD, the setup program will create it's own > partition on my drive. Is this true? If you ask it to, yes. > or will I have to use a program like Partition Magic to make a new > partition, in order to keep Win98? You don't have to keep Win98. But if it's your intention, it'll do that, too. You don't need PartitionMagic, but FreeBSD will respect partitions made by PartitionMagic. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message