From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 21:28:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA20693 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 21:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20688 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 21:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slip166-72-108-108.ny.us.ibm.net (slip166-72-108-108.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.108.108]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA28294; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 04:28:31 GMT Message-Id: <199708080428.EAA28294@out1.ibm.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Michael G." To: Mohammad Islam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 00:28:08 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Fbsd Installation on FAT32 filesystem!!! X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Michael G." X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would reccommend doing a fresh load...create two separate partitions(at least keeping in mind both op systems need their boot drive below 524megs) and load from there... during setup you can create the appropriate FreeBSD slices... Michael G. > I was trying to install FBSD on a new machine that came with the new > version of win95 that has a FAT32 filesystem. NOw i found out that FBSD > doesnt recognize the FAT32 filesystem. FIPS didnt work for the same > reason. > > Now how can i go about installing FBSD on this machine that has a 32 bit > filesystem? > > I looked through the mailing-lists archives and didnt get any insight. > > Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks . > > Regards, > > sohel > -- > ......................................................................... > :Mohammad K Islam : > :1434 N fairmount st #1 E-mail:sohel@southwind.net : > :Wichita, KS 67208 : > :.......................................................................: > >