Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:27:16 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning "New" Hard Drive Message-ID: <20000318222716.A879@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <v03130300b4f94fc74a3c@[209.150.39.56]>; from media@mail1.nai.net on Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:04:02PM -0500 References: <00ee01bf8f6d$2914cee0$0e65a8c0@fred.encanto.net> <v03130308b4f685f8e78d@[209.150.35.207]> <v03130300b4f94fc74a3c@[209.150.39.56]>
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:04:02PM -0500, media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > > 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?? The way I would do it is as follows: Use Fdisk to create a partition (or "slice" in BSD-speak) where windows will live. Let the rest of the disk be unused. Install Windows in that partition (which will be known as C: to Windows). Install FreeBSD. Use sysinstall to create a second slice where FreeBSD will live and continue with the installation as usual. > > 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?? Since only the very last versions of Windows95 had support for FAT32 I think you can install it on a normal FAT disk. (My copy of Win95 doesn't know about FAT32 so I have no experience with it.) For such a small disk the advantages of FAT32 over normal FAT are probably not very big 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?? > Installing Windows 95 always wipes out any boot-managers. Therefore you should install The boot manager after installing Windows95. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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