Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:29:37 -0400 From: "Dongre, Prashant" <ppd2@co.westchester.ny.us> To: "'big_river_software.com@ns.sympatico.ca'" <big_river_software.com@ns.sympatico.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: any heads up on FreeBSD install to system with whole hdd FAT3 2 Message-ID: <17B91896EB94D211A8930090271EB8D7065FC8@exch002.co.westchester.ny.us>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I was able to use Partition magic on whole FAT32 6.5 Gb Disk without any problem. FAT32 was created using WIN98 install. I had no important data on the system so took the risk. -----Original Message----- From: David W. Rice [mailto:big_river_software.com@ns.sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: any heads up on FreeBSD install to system with whole hdd FAT32 I have Compaq Presario 1220 running win/95 with 2.1GB hdd Fat32. I've heard that fat32 messes with the parition table. This seems to be verified as a product called PartitionMagic (supposed to let one re-partition without losing data) crashes andburns when I run it. I'm getting usual industry support from vendor (silence). I want to run FreeBSD and have to run Win/95 on same system. I don't want to start installation if I'm going to crash the partition table and backing up the 1.3 Mb worth of stuff I have on Fat32 is one big job with a laptop. All I have is diskette and another machine via ICQ. Any suggestions for someone who doesn't want to learn the hard way. Apart from backup first. I know allready. Thanks Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?17B91896EB94D211A8930090271EB8D7065FC8>