From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 16 15:28:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fingers.shocking.com (shocking.com [216.111.111.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D7514D01 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doemill@shocking.com) Received: from shocking.com (doemill@shocking.com [216.111.111.11]) by fingers.shocking.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA03957; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:25:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug To: ghw Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi! In-Reply-To: <000701becfd5$6b940900$0675ebc2@wierbos01> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yes, you have to create seperate partitions for freebsd to reside in, And you will need to install a loader similar to lilo. Thats done auto' though. You dont have to format it, You could use FIPS to take a chunk off your curent windows partition so you can allocate space for freebsd... That way you wont have to lose any data, just make sure to defrag before hand. On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, ghw wrote: > HI! > > I want to know if you have to format the harddisk, like you have to do with LINUX before installing... > I hope you will e-mail me back soon... > > Thanx, Gert W > | Doug | unix9.org admin | shocking.com/~doemill/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message