From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 22:55:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFB516A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:55:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1D943D3F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:52:12 -0600 Message-ID: <421E5B71.3080502@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:55:45 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tyler Gee References: <421BB6F6.2080704@savaka.com> <6e01203b050222145968985bb8@mail.gmail.com> <6e01203b05022215006a221d68@mail.gmail.com> <421BBBE7.9000202@savaka.com> <6e01203b0502221520582bf876@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6e01203b0502221520582bf876@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2005 22:52:12.0829 (UTC) FILETIME=[7AA1B4D0:01C51AC3] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: Eric Subject: Re: winxp and freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:55:49 -0000 Tyler Gee wrote: >0 GB - Windows >Max GB - FreeBSD > >:) > >Just kidding. It would mostly just depend on what you need. Keep in >mind that you can read Windows files from BSD but not vice verse (and >writing is kind of sketchy). > >On a recent 20GB HD I put 5GB for Windows, 10GB for FreeBSD and left >the other 5 open so I could add it to either one. > >What do you need your Windows box for? That will mostly determine how >much space you want to allocate to it. > > >On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:10:31 -0500, Eric wrote: > > >>Thanks --- any recommendations on formatting and partitioning my hdd >>prior to the OS installs? >> >> >> Righto, and hope I'm not too late. Consider carefully that NTFS is readable, but not really writeable from FreeBSD. You may wish to run winXP on a FAT32 volume (although it would be understandable if not). You could do as Tyler suggests, and set up a relatively small NTFS for winXP, a hug^H^H^Hsuitable area for FBSD, and a FAT32 partition you could access from either OS. HTH, Kevin Kinsey