On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:21:26 -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:39:04 AM > "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Quick Install Question > Wrote these words of wisdom: > > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:13:30 -0600 > > "Daniel Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** > 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. > > -- > Gerard Seibert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
