Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:28:58 -0500 (EST) From: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: <nrichard47@telus.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD along with Windows XP Message-ID: <2436.216.153.202.59.1012253338.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> In-Reply-To: <2294.216.153.202.59.1012251514.squirrel@www1.27in.tv> References: <2294.216.153.202.59.1012251514.squirrel@www1.27in.tv>
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C J Michaels puts on his dunce hat 'cause he said:
> 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.
OOPS. Man I need to learn how to read, sorry. As someone else already
said, you would need to remove the D: partition as FreeBSD can't make use
of an MS-DOS partition.
On that note, the FreeBSD installer will create it's own slice, partition
it, and format it appropriately.
<...snip...>
--
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
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