From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 16:54:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05788 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:54:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whitestar.cpn.org.au ([147.109.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05773 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Received: from jumpgate.cpn.org.au (jumpgate.cpn.org.au [172.16.1.1]) by whitestar.cpn.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA04301; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 09:54:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 09:54:16 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cpn@jumpgate.cpn.org.au To: Bill Scharf cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows 98 FAT32 compatibility In-Reply-To: <000501bde8fc$27bc5ae0$b7a7ad0a@kuntrynet.com> 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 On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bill Scharf wrote: > Hello, > > I was just wondering if FreeBSD supports Windows 98's FAT32 filesystem. I > tried installing FreeBSD the other day, only to find out that it won't work > with the Fat32 filesystem. Besides purchasing Partition Magic, are there any > free programs that will let me dual-boot between Win98 and Freebsd with a > fat32 filesystem? I just set up a dual boot Win98/FreeBSD machine for a friend yesterday. The boot manager I used was osbsbeta (from the tools directory on the CD). The only problem I had was that I had to use DOS fdisk to set the Win98 partition active once FreeBSD was installed. cheers, Carey Nairn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message