Quick Install Question

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Tue Dec 27 10:21:46 PST 2005


On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM
"Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com>
Subject: Re: Quick Install Question
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600
> "Daniel Goldberg" <dgoldberg at tarshis.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear FreeBSD-
	[..]
> 
> 1. Install Windows first, in the first partition.  If you want FreeBSD
> to be able to write to the Windows partition, use the fat32 format
> instead of NTFS. Do NOT create this partition to use the entire disk
> as the FreeBSD installation does not include tools to resize the
> existing Windows partition.
> 
> 2. See more documentation regarding FreeBSD installation at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
> 
> Best of luck,
> 
> Andrew Gould


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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

Perhaps I am missing something here, but I have WinXP installed on one
of my computers. The HD is formatted with NTFS, not fat32. Using Samba, i
can both read and write to this disk.

Maybe I am missing something from the original posters message.

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