From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 8:36:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F29A37B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust207.tnt8.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.10.12.207]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16487; Tue, 15 May 2001 08:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01347; Tue, 15 May 2001 11:36:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105151536.LAA01347@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD without partition? In-Reply-To: from Andrew Koester at "May 14, 2001 08:51:32 pm" To: Andrew7782@hotmail.com (Andrew Koester) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:35:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No. You will need a BSD partition. What you can do is use a utility called FIPS that allows you to shrink a FAT32 partition. Make sure you read the README for it. I've used FIPS on a few occasions and have never ruined the Windows partion. Ian As told by, Andrew Koester [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I run two windows operating systems (Windows ME + Windows 2000 Professional) and when we received the computer, the whole thing was converted to native Microsoft FAT-32 before we got it. In other words, I can't partition the disk. Is there a way to install FreeBSD on my system without creating a partition and still load my other OS's (even through a DOS command or such)? Thank you. > > Andrew Koester > Andrew7782@hotmail.com -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message