Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 07:31:45 -0500 From: Rod Person <rodperson@comcast.net> To: Jev <jev@ecad.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions... Message-ID: <200311060731.45620.rodperson@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <3FAA3663.5000304@ecad.org> References: <3FAA2761.8090808@ecad.org> <200311060618.59528.rodperson@comcast.net> <3FAA3663.5000304@ecad.org>
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 06:54 am, It was written: > > I have an R40. I used partition magic to resize the partition, by far the > > easiest way to resize a partition. > > But, just for completeness, fdisk shouldn't have any problem deleting > the partitions and creating new ones for a reinstall of XP, and a new > install of FreeBSD? I think this is obvious, but I want to be sure the > hidden tracks and slices won't complicate things :) If your going to do it that way, fdisk should be fine, I thought you were going to resize the XP partition that comes installed. > > >>Does this partition have to be FAT32 or can I use NTFS? > > > > It's been sometime since I've done this about 8 month or something, but I > > believe that I told partition magic that the new partition would be used > > for linux, IMO it doesn't matter if it fat32, dos or ext2 since freebsd > > will reformat the partition anyway. > > Ah, I thought I read it at that the partition for XP would be formatted > as FAT32, is our WinXP installed on a NTFS slice or other? Sorry again, I thought you were referring to the bsd partition. My XP partitions are NTFS, I think you can use fat32 I think there is a preformance hit, but I'm really not up on windows file systems and preformance :) have fun. -- Rod @ Home So No Cool Signature AIM: TheRealRoddieRod Yahoo:RoddieRod http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st
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