From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 20: 6: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0D5D37BE00 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 20:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 360 invoked from network); 19 May 2000 03:05:16 -0000 Received: from theory6.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.126) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 19 May 2000 03:05:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 28457 invoked by uid 211); 19 May 2000 03:05:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:35:14 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: davemeck Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTFS partition and BSD Message-ID: <20000519083514.A28431@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <006901bfc139$66a095c0$31c3a2d8@drizzle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <006901bfc139$66a095c0$31c3a2d8@drizzle.net>; from davemeck@drizzle.net on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:24:45PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.15pre4 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG davemeck said on May 18, 2000 at 19:24:45: > If I am going to install FreeBSD on a system that currently runs NT > 4 Workstation, and has both partitions formatted in NTFS, do I have > to create a third partion that is FAT formatted? You don't need a FAT formatted partition. You need a spare partition, which contains no useful data already, on which you'll put FreeBSD. FreeBSD will format that partition in its own way (actually it will make its own UFS-style partitions inside that) so it doesn't matter what format that partition had earlier. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message