From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 9:53:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5621837B404 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 525 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2002 17:53:46 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 24 Mar 2002 17:53:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3C9E12EC.8010104@cream.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:54:52 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dillion Klein Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS w/ FreeBSD dual boot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dillion Klein wrote : > >So, this time I have gotten this far: > >C:\ Primary 5GB (NTFS) > :\ (no drive letter assigned) (A FAT32 Primary partition, empty) 6.2GB >D:\ Extended 5GB w/ 5GB Logical (NTFS) > >Now, how can I be sure when I go through the FreeBSD installation that I >use and FreeBSD format the ":\" primary partition created in advance? > All existing partitions on your drive should appear in fdisk when you are installing FreeBSD. So long as you know which partition (slice) is which, you should be able to delete the empty FAT32 slice and create a new FreeBSD one in its place. Perhaps I'm not understanding your problem correctly? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message