Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:52:59 +0930 From: "Ray, Pinaki" <pinaki.ray@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Formatting Harddrive for Installation Message-ID: <C15155CADE2FD211A4A300062B000EDD20A61E@exchsa5.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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I want to install FreeBSD on my harddrive using the CD-ROM (Walnut Creek) FreeBSD 3.0 Snapshot in my possession. At present my harddrive has been partitioned in several logical drives and I have installed the following OSs: DOS 6.2 on the first 1GB (FAT16) partition, NT4.0 (Build1381, Service Pack 5) on the second partition 4.2GB (NTFS), and I have left free 4 GB of space for FreeBSD. I want to know how do I format this space (4 GB) for installing FreeBSD on it. Reading through all the files and the Handbook I find that FreeBSD can be installed 'from a MS-DOS partition' (but nothing more). What does that mean - can FreeBSD be installed on FAT16 or FAT32 or NTFS formats for that matter ? Or does FreeBSD has its own formatting tools ? -- In that case will FreeBSD be able to see all of 4 GB (or more if given) as a single partition ? Nothing explicitly is stated in the literature I could get hold on. Please advise me in details how to proceed. Also how shall I edit the NT loader 'boot.ini' so that I am able to choose from DOS, NT or FreeBSD on booting. Thank you. Pinaki Ray email: Pinaki.Ray@dsto.defence.gov.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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