From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 12:58:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AEEC37B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0SKwaX76381; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:58:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 27in.tv (roc-66-24-112-7.rochester.rr.com [66.24.112.7]) by mail.27in.tv (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with SMTP id g0SKwYU76371; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:58:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from 216.153.202.59 (SquirrelMail authenticated user cjm2) by www1.27in.tv with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:58:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <2294.216.153.202.59.1012251514.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:58:34 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD along with Windows XP From: "C J Michaels" To: In-Reply-To: <005601c1a761$6ba61f80$24d8e8d8@mike> References: <005601c1a761$6ba61f80$24d8e8d8@mike> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Norm said: > Dear Sir: > > I have a new P4 1.8GHz with 512 MB RDRAM and 60GB HDD which I have > split int two drives (C,D). I plan on using Drive C for Windows XP and > Drive D for FreeBSD. > > 1) Can you tell me whether it is better to use NTFS file formatting or > FAT32 for either or both drives? Pros and cons of using either file > systems? FreeBSD has it's own format called ufs. This would be used on the D: drive. FreeBSD has support for reading FAT32 and NTFS (though the FAT32 support is more mature). Alas, WinXP cannot read ufs. > > 2) I believe XP has MBR capability! (for multiple boot systems) If > that is so, can it be used successfully with FreeBSD and how is it > activated? Your choice really, both boot loaders work, although I do like the NT boot loader a little better (which is what XP uses). The answer on how is covered in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT- BOOTLOADER > > 3) From reading the material on your site, I understand that I can > create my own bootable CD ROM, I tried with the BSD 4.4 folder but all > I got was a copy of the files. Is it the ISO 4.4 image file (Disc 1 & > 2) that will create the CD Boot Disks? Yes, it's the ISO for disc 1. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/4.4- install.iso Take a look at the README in that dir ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/README.TXT to see if you need any of the other discs. > > 4) Do I need to format the drive D before installing FreeBSD? No, Freebsd does that for you. > > Any othe advice you have will be welcomed. Not specifically, but I can recommend a good site for those new to FreeBSD, www.freebsddiary.org. Of course you should read the approriate pages in the Handbook and FAQ, found @ www.freebsd.org, before installing. > > Thank you. > > > Normand Richard -- Chris "I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!" -- Tom Galloway with apologies to Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message