From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 13:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from praseodumium.btinternet.com (praseodumium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED2A37B7D7 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.7.92.56] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12sqb1-0004Ss-00; Fri, 19 May 2000 18:30:00 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00866; Fri, 19 May 2000 18:29:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:29:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Kent Stewart Cc: davemeck , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS partition and BSD Message-ID: <20000519182944.A233@parish> References: <006901bfc139$66a095c0$31c3a2d8@drizzle.net> <3924B0B1.61CD0D13@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3924B0B1.61CD0D13@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:10:41PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:10:41PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > 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. ^^^^^^ Is this because of CHS translation? 1024 cyls used to equate to 504MB (the original HD limit due to the lowest common denominator of IDE spec and PC BIOS spec), then people started saying 1GB, then 2GB, now you are saying 8.4GB (the limit of FAT16). > 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. So obviously it isn't any of the (previous) lower limits. > > 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 -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message