Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 20:10:41 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: davemeck <davemeck@drizzle.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NTFS partition and BSD Message-ID: <3924B0B1.61CD0D13@3-cities.com> References: <006901bfc139$66a095c0$31c3a2d8@drizzle.net>
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> davemeck wrote: > > 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 to do anything except leave the space. The important part is the the "/" partition has to be in front of cylinder 1024. That equates to ~8.4GB. The FreeBSD slice can exceed that. I have a 2GB Fat16, a 3GB Dos Extended partition and at the end, a 15GB FreeBSD slice. I create my own partitions for "/", swap, "/var", "/tmp", and "/usr" out of the 15GB. FreeBSD will create a single partition that includes all of them but that usually doesn't work on the larger drives. Especially when you are adding it at the end. By creating the 5 partitions, you don't have any problem with 4.0. I tried adding 3.4 on to the system but it created a partition that my PC would not recognize at boot. Version 4.0 has run pretty close to flawlessly. You just need to get it installed and upgrade to stable. You may not have any problems with the release version but they were some wavy hand things going on for me that went away with 4.0-Stable. Have fun, Kent > > Thank you for your time -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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