From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 11:57:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B0037B437 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from xpmachine.tampabay.rr.com (6532124hfc40.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.124.40]) by smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1MJvITX004413 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:57:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020222143135.00b14898@pop-server.tampabay.rr.com> X-Sender: pmolzah1@pop-server.tampabay.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:57:16 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: Paul and Jean Molzahn Subject: HELP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 I have Windows XP. so am limited in using DOS. I have Partition Magic and plan for it to make a suitable partition for Freebsd - Do I need to format that partition (& how big should it be?) as FAT, FAT32, NTFS, LINUX, .....? and does it need to be a primary partition? If I use the CD installation, will it "find" the partition prepared by Partition Magic? I am in the process of reviewing your online guidebook, but would appreciate any additional guidance to enable me to safely put your OS on my computer. I learned about Freebsd from my LangaListPlus newsletter and am very interested in using it. Sincerely, George Paul Molzahn pmolzah1@tampabay.rr.com ps: I think the CD is the way for me to install Freebsd (do you agree?) - If so, how do I go about ordering it along with a handbook? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message