From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 8:14:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from speechpro.com (crt-gw.infopro.spb.su [195.201.254.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C967937B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:14:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from igorr by sysadm.stc with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16fkGD-0006Af-00; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:15:25 +0300 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:15:25 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: Paul and Jean Molzahn Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP Message-ID: <20020226161525.GC22181@sysadm.stc> Reply-To: igorr@speechpro.com Mail-Followup-To: Igor Roboul , Paul and Jean Molzahn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020222143135.00b14898@pop-server.tampabay.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020222143135.00b14898@pop-server.tampabay.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:57:16PM -0500, Paul and Jean Molzahn wrote: > 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. You do not need format this partition. Just make sure that you have freem unpartitioned space on disk. But as far as I know FreeBSD need one Primary partition (at least). FreeBSD intaller will create FreeBSD partition table in this one primary DOS partition (slice in FreeBSD terms) -- Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center http://www.speechpro.com http://www.speechpro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message