From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 14:53: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED748154FD for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17716; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:09:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jon Wynacht Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Question In-Reply-To: <001901bef96a$46b577e0$b43b46ab@jwynacht.cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jon Wynacht wrote: > Hello, > > I'm ready to install FreeBSD on my Toshiba laptop and I heard from a friend > that I didn't have to make a partition for it; that I could do it directly > to the partition Win 98 uses. > > Anybody know about this? I think your friend harbors some (justified) resentment towards windows... No you can't do that you'll have to set aside a seperate partition if you want to run both windows and FreeBSD. However if you only want to run FreeBSD there is no need for a windows partititon. good luck, -Alfred > > Thanks, > > Jon > > > > 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