From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 5:40:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.lublin.pl (mx2.lublin.pl [212.182.63.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3529B14E59 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 05:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zuntum@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl) Received: from lagoon.freebsd.org.pl ([194.92.16.30]:52752 "HELO lagoon.freebsd.org.pl" smtp-auth: ) by urania.umcs.lublin.pl with SMTP id ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:46:14 +0200 Received: (qmail 47694 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1999 12:40:13 -0000 Received: from pa52.lublin.ppp.tpnet.pl (HELO zunpc) (212.160.36.52) by lagoon.freebsd.org.pl with SMTP; 14 Jul 1999 12:40:13 -0000 From: "Tomasz Luchowski" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "frances_rosen" Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:40:15 +0200 Subject: Re: 2 questions: FAT32; Windows NT In-reply-to: <19990714033919.AAA11800@hms1.med.harvard.edu@webmail.med.harvard.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Message-Id: <19990714114621Z1456154-7785+3@urania.umcs.lublin.pl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi. I am planning to do a complete reinstall of Windows 95, and > then install FreeBSD 2.2.6 as well. mabye you should install the newer version of FreeBSD, 3.x? > This will require re-formatting > my hard drives. Can I use FAT32 format? or do I need to use FAT16 > if I am going to install FreeBSD? (There is plenty of room so I > shouldn't need FIPS). explain one thing: do you want to install FreeBSD on FATxx partition? AFIAK it isn't possible. > > But there is some feeling that I should install Windows NT. Can I > have a dual boot with NT & BSD? If so, Can I format the drive > using NTFS format or, again, do I need to use FAT16? look above. You can read all FAT partitions from FreeBSD, maybe ever NTFS. but you must create FreeBSD/386 partition on which FreeBSD resides. > > Thank you very much!! > frances_rosen@hms.harvard.edu -- zuntum:*:*:Tomasz Luchowski:http://lagoon.freebsd.org.pl/~zuntum zuntum@lagoon.freebsd.org.pl:@nemezis:@fenix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message