From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 10:32: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from exch002.co.westchester.ny.us (exch002.co.westchester.ny.us [163.151.33.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E128915A40 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:32:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ppd2@co.westchester.ny.us) Received: by exch002.co.westchester.ny.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <3QNGRPQ4>; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:29:38 -0400 Message-ID: <17B91896EB94D211A8930090271EB8D7065FC8@exch002.co.westchester.ny.us> From: "Dongre, Prashant" To: "'big_river_software.com@ns.sympatico.ca'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: any heads up on FreeBSD install to system with whole hdd FAT3 2 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:29:37 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was able to use Partition magic on whole FAT32 6.5 Gb Disk without any problem. FAT32 was created using WIN98 install. I had no important data on the system so took the risk. -----Original Message----- From: David W. Rice [mailto:big_river_software.com@ns.sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: any heads up on FreeBSD install to system with whole hdd FAT32 I have Compaq Presario 1220 running win/95 with 2.1GB hdd Fat32. I've heard that fat32 messes with the parition table. This seems to be verified as a product called PartitionMagic (supposed to let one re-partition without losing data) crashes andburns when I run it. I'm getting usual industry support from vendor (silence). I want to run FreeBSD and have to run Win/95 on same system. I don't want to start installation if I'm going to crash the partition table and backing up the 1.3 Mb worth of stuff I have on Fat32 is one big job with a laptop. All I have is diskette and another machine via ICQ. Any suggestions for someone who doesn't want to learn the hard way. Apart from backup first. I know allready. Thanks Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message