From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 13:29:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084E437B495 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0SLT0C77810; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:29:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g0SLSwU77801; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:28:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 216.153.202.59 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www1.27in.tv with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:28:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2436.216.153.202.59.1012253338.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:28:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD along with Windows XP From: "C J Michaels" To: In-Reply-To: <2294.216.153.202.59.1012251514.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> References: <2294.216.153.202.59.1012251514.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG C J Michaels puts on his dunce hat 'cause he said: > Norm said: >> Dear Sir: >> >> I have a new P4 1.8GHz with 512 MB RDRAM and 60GB HDD which I have >> split int two drives (C,D). I plan on using Drive C for Windows XP >> and Drive D for FreeBSD. >> >> 1) Can you tell me whether it is better to use NTFS file formatting or >> FAT32 for either or both drives? Pros and cons of using either file >> systems? > > FreeBSD has it's own format called ufs. This would be used on the D: > drive. FreeBSD has support for reading FAT32 and NTFS (though the > FAT32 support is more mature). Alas, WinXP cannot read ufs. OOPS. Man I need to learn how to read, sorry. As someone else already said, you would need to remove the D: partition as FreeBSD can't make use of an MS-DOS partition. On that note, the FreeBSD installer will create it's own slice, partition it, and format it appropriately. <...snip...> -- Chris "I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!" -- Tom Galloway with apologies to Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message