From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 18 13: 4:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.javanet.com (mail1.javanet.com [205.219.162.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0437637B607 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:04:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from media@mail1.nai.net) Received: from [209.150.38.217] (ct-hartford-hiper2215.javanet.com [209.150.38.217]) by mail1.javanet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA21755 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:04:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:04:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <00ee01bf8f6d$2914cee0$0e65a8c0@fred.encanto.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: From: media@mail1.nai.net Subject: Partitioning "New" Hard Drive Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just reformatted my hard drive, using FORMAT.EXE. I am going to re-install Windows 95 and FreeBSD. Should I use FIPS to partition the drive after installing Windows, or is there a better way now, while the drive is still empty?? Also if I use FDISK to format the drive, it asked me if I want to use FAT32 for larger hardrives (it's a 1G IDE), but then warns me I might have trouble with other operating systems. Does FreeBSD have trouble with FAT32?? Wouldn't installing Windows 95 make the allocation table for the DOS partition FAT32 anyway?? Also, if I use FIPS 2.0 to split my DOS partition in order to install FreeBSD, then re-install Windows 95, then the Boot Manager disappears and no longer lets me boot FreeBSD. Is there a solution to this?? THANX!! PEACE OUT :) MARK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message