From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 22:34:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9FA1065670 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:34:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A993D8FC1C for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0FMYKVt060138; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:34:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id aEhcTo97vnMf; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:34:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (ezekiel.daleco.biz [66.76.92.18]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0FMYHiU060133; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:34:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4B50ED69.9070106@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:34:17 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <225661.56209.qm@smtp134.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20100115212043.GA88211@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100115212043.GA88211@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, davidoweir3@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: Server set up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:34:38 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Of course, if you plan to dual boot FreeBSD along with the existing > installation of W98, then you need enough disk for both of them. > Probably 20 Gbytes each as a minimum. More is nicer. > > If you want to dual boot, then you will need to acquire a utility > that will allow you to shrink down the W98 portion of the disk > to make room for FreeBSD. There are several available, both for > a price and free. The most common one to buy is Partition Magic. > I have used that successfully until I came to dividing a USB disk > and it failed on that. It has some other quirks and limits too. > > The most common free one is gparted which you can download and > burn to a CD from the net. Just do a Google search for it. > There are other free ones. Two limited ones come with FreeBSD. > > I don't remember back to W98. Does it use NTFS file system type? > It the Windos file system is of type NTFS, most of the free partition > utilities will not work. I think that gparted is supposed to, > but I haven't tried it on that. NTFS comes with "NT" versions of Windows, that is, NT, Windows 2000, and everything since then. W95 and W98 used FAT filesystems. Fat32 was the default for Win98 IIRC. KDK