From: "Tomasz Luchowski" <zuntum@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "frances_rosen" <frances_rosen@hms.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: 2 questions: FAT32; Windows NT Message-ID: <19990714114621Z1456154-7785%2B3@urania.umcs.lublin.pl> In-Reply-To: <19990714033919.AAA11800@hms1.med.harvard.edu@webmail.med.harvard.edu>
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> Hi. I am planning to do a complete reinstall of Windows 95, and > then install FreeBSD 2.2.6 as well. mabye you should install the newer version of FreeBSD, 3.x? > This will require re-formatting > my hard drives. Can I use FAT32 format? or do I need to use FAT16 > if I am going to install FreeBSD? (There is plenty of room so I > shouldn't need FIPS). explain one thing: do you want to install FreeBSD on FATxx partition? AFIAK it isn't possible. > > But there is some feeling that I should install Windows NT. Can I > have a dual boot with NT & BSD? If so, Can I format the drive > using NTFS format or, again, do I need to use FAT16? look above. You can read all FAT partitions from FreeBSD, maybe ever NTFS. but you must create FreeBSD/386 partition on which FreeBSD resides. > > Thank you very much!! > frances_rosen@hms.harvard.edu -- zuntum:*:*:Tomasz Luchowski:http://lagoon.freebsd.org.pl/~zuntum zuntum@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl:@nemezis:@fenix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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