From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 18:23:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439791537F for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pinaki.ray@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA28871 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:50:23 +0930 (CST) Received: from exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified [131.185.2.94]) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Integralis SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:52:35 +0930 Received: by exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:53:02 +0930 Message-Id: From: "Ray, Pinaki" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Formatting Harddrive for Installation Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:52:59 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to install FreeBSD on my harddrive using the CD-ROM (Walnut Creek) FreeBSD 3.0 Snapshot in my possession. At present my harddrive has been partitioned in several logical drives and I have installed the following OSs: DOS 6.2 on the first 1GB (FAT16) partition, NT4.0 (Build1381, Service Pack 5) on the second partition 4.2GB (NTFS), and I have left free 4 GB of space for FreeBSD. I want to know how do I format this space (4 GB) for installing FreeBSD on it. Reading through all the files and the Handbook I find that FreeBSD can be installed 'from a MS-DOS partition' (but nothing more). What does that mean - can FreeBSD be installed on FAT16 or FAT32 or NTFS formats for that matter ? Or does FreeBSD has its own formatting tools ? -- In that case will FreeBSD be able to see all of 4 GB (or more if given) as a single partition ? Nothing explicitly is stated in the literature I could get hold on. Please advise me in details how to proceed. Also how shall I edit the NT loader 'boot.ini' so that I am able to choose from DOS, NT or FreeBSD on booting. Thank you. Pinaki Ray email: Pinaki.Ray@dsto.defence.gov.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message