From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 15: 1:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D364236 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:01:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat54.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.246]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id AAA08410; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:59:52 +0200 Received: by hades.hell.gr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 08F2368E02; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:17:53 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:17:53 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: yoav@bnt.co.il Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win98 & Fat32 Message-ID: <20000209181753.A82869@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <38A0361C.58D4DADA@bnt.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38A0361C.58D4DADA@bnt.co.il>; from yoav@bnt.co.il on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 05:28:28PM +0200, yoav@bnt.co.il wrote: > > Can I install FreeBSD on a FAT32 disk (10gb) with Win98, or do I need to > split the disk? FreeBSD can read Win98 partitions, but you can not boot from them. The booting process depends on certain "features" of the filesystem, which Windows FAT32 lacks. You will have to split the disk, I'm afraid. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message