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List:       freebsd-newbies
Subject:    Re: FAT32
From:       Ross George <georger () cuftas ! com ! au>
Date:       1998-11-16 3:42:37
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At 19:49 14/11/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Here's my problem.  I have 1
>physical IDE drive partitioned
>into 4 FAT32 logical drives, C
>D E and F.  If I have Win98 on
>C, FreeBSD on D and data on E
>and F, can i:
>
>a) install FreeBSD on D
>without losing or converting
>ANY data on the other drives?
>
>b) Use FreeBSD with a FAT32
>drive?
>
>c) Dual Boot Win98 and
>FreeBSD?  If so, how?
>
>I would really appreciate some
>clarification.
>
>-David Williams -
>williams@wilroy.demon.co.uk
>

There is a problem to keep in mind when installing FreeBSD onto logical
partitions: the root (/) partition must start before physical sectore
number 1024. Therefore you are best off installing FreeBSD on your C:
partion, or on D: if C: is small.

FreeBSD has its own boot manager, but beware - if you re-install win95/98
after installing FreeBSD, the boot partition will be overwritten.

Another handy hint - FAT16 drives may be mounted on a FreeBSD system.
See the "mount -t msdos" command for more details.


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