From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 12:26:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13403 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13390 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA06588; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White 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. You need to split off some totally unallocated space for the FreeBSD slice. The FreeBSD installer will make the partition type it needs. > please e-mail replies to mbatch@po-box.mcgill.ca Your return address didn't come through properly for some reason. Check your mailer setup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major