From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 22:17:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA24215 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA24207 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA24821; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:46:45 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971010144645.12604@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:46:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brian J. Cipresse" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can Free BSD Coexist with a Windows NT full NTFS System? References: <3.0.2.32.19971009215854.0090a940@shell5.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971009215854.0090a940@shell5.ba.best.com>; from Brian J. Cipresse on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 09:58:54PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 09:58:54PM -0700, Brian J. Cipresse wrote: > I don't have any DOS partions left on my hard drives since I have converted > them to NTFS. Since one of the requirements appears to be installing from > a MS-DOS partioned floppy, Installing from an MS-DOS partitioned floppy is most definitely *not* a requirement for installing FreeBSD. The boot floppy has its own format, and it is not intelligible to MS-DOS. > I don't see how the install program will be able to recognize the > NTFS partition. It won't. Sorry, you can't do this. > Any ideas? I searched the FAQs and the web but nothings seems to explicity > address this issue. The easiest way to install FreeBSD is from CD-ROM. You *must* have a spare disk partition to install FreeBSD on. FreeBSD can understand Microsoft file system formats up to a point, but it needs a UFS (UNIX File System) partition to run. It would be impractical to install FreeBSD with less than about 150 MB of dedicated disk space. Greg