From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 02:27:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA05294 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA05286 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA10880; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:27:14 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:27:14 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: aschwa5@po-box.mcgill.ca cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing *after* win95 In-Reply-To: <344FB498.1B6D@po-box.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 aschwa5@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote: > I have win95 installed on my one 4.3 gig hard drive. the partition > takes up the whole drive, and I am using FAT32. > How should I go about creating a partition for freBSD? When I run > fdisk, it mentions that FAT32 is used, and that `if you create a > partition from the original, you will not be able to use it with other > operating systems'... > > Any ideas on how I should proceed? Thanks for any help you can give. Take a look at Partition Magic (http://www.partition.com). I've never used it with FAT32 paritions (thanks goodness I have none), but the doc's say it'll handle it. It is a commercial product though (about $70). > > please e-mail replies to mbatch@po-box.mcgill.ca > michael batchelder > Nadav