From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 14 15:53:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03264 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03256 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:53:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA27236; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:23:34 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA15326; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:23:34 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981215102334.L17075@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:23:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: NoahFekts@aol.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: creating partitions References: <70699285.36757da0@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <70699285.36757da0@aol.com>; from NoahFekts@aol.com on Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 04:05:36PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please don't send me personal questions unless you intend to pay me for the answer. I assume this is not the case, and since you're talking about FreeBSD, you should sign up on FreeBSD-questions and ask the questions there (send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with body (not subject) 'subscribe FreeBSD-questions'). I'm copying the list on this reply. On Monday, 14 December 1998 at 16:05:36 -0500, NoahFekts@aol.com wrote: > i wanna keep win98 around for at least a little while... > I started to read about the FAT32 filesystem, but of course microsoft wrote > it, and it's rather confusing...Im just worried that if i put a new partition > on the drive that has been converted to FAT32, something will go wrong with my > drive....can I install FreeBSD, and not have to worry about losing my > drive/win98/FAT32/etc? I don't do Microsoft. But FreeBSD will not remove any partitions unless you tell it to. Be very careful not to tell it to :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message