From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 13:21:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA06839 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA06834 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:21:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971124212109.6918.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.218] by send1a; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:21:09 PST Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:21:09 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: installation To: Tsu Kong Lue , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you are using the FAT file format under Win95, then a good approach may be, to defragment you HDD, thereby moving all Win95 stuff to the first half of the drive and then partitioning the drive into two halves (or parts). Then you can use the second half to install FreeBSD on. The installation process will format the second partition. I hope that was the question! Rudy. ---Tsu Kong Lue wrote: > > If your running win 95 can you still use the DOS installation process or > must the whole HDD be formatted before installation and a second > partition created for FreeBSD ? > > > > Tsu Kong > > __________________________________________________________________ Sent by Yahoo! Mail. Get your free e-mail at http://mail.yahoo.com