Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:25:23 -0700 From: Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Robert Dayton" <rob@dayton.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to install FBSD5.2.1 and Windows XP what proceedure to follow. Message-ID: <6015.1084991123@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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I don't think this discussion is laptop brand specific, so I comment below based upon my ThinkPad experience. rob@dayton.homeip.net said: >You don't have to trash anything. Use Partition Magic to shrink your >WindowsXP partition and set up one for FreeBSD. Sometimes you do. Partition Magic didn't work for me because there were some Windows files it refused to move (probably kernel or paging files). Those files had to be moved to make enough room. So I backed up, repartitioned using the FreeBSD CD, and used the vendor's product recovery CD and the backup to recreate a Windows partition of the desired size. -- M/S 258-5 |1024-bit PGP fingerprint:|tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center| 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59| (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035 | 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6|FAX: (650) 604-4377 Not an official NASA position; you can't even be certain who sent this!
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