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FreeBSD and Partition Magic
Name: Paul Robotham Date: December 1, 2001 at 23:55:51 Pacific
Comment:
I understand that FreeBSD requires a primary hard drive partition to run. Can I use Partition Magic to create a partition to install FreeBSD on. And if so, what file system type does FreeBSD use: FAT, FAT32 or Ext2(linux only) ?
Name: richard Date: December 20, 2001 at 07:58:05 Pacific
Reply:
The best way to install freebsd is to just leave as much space as you want for it empty. so if you have a 4gig hard drive and you have a 2gig primary partition for windows 98, then you would just want to leave the other two gigs free and then allocate it for freebsd in the install. however, i would recommend backing up everything before installing freebsd, and also i would install freebsd first.
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