From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 18:56:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FBB16A403 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:56:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swtpete@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0D013C455 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:56:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swtpete@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so4895172uge for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:56:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type; b=FRSp3vjLl6Da4a3V2sfLaYTDQFCkKAg97thXKB2Zm6j6yQ5lnDHPWBZh1coa7idIzHQsCDQazn7qsbFj4CfGv8wYiKKL6As/zrDWGILBg1fvovkEebCwcBvvUPc0O3pUukrknv8zO7nFogzvMruKuDH6GERHcpKm40sYfKkZbw8= Received: by 10.82.165.1 with SMTP id n1mr4035867bue.1167936961243; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:56:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.150.13 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:56:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:56:01 -0800 From: "Peter aka SweetPete" To: "FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:56:03 -0000 Re the FreeBSD Installer-- I think that more specifically, I would like and lots of users in the *nix community probably would not mind, if sysinstall could handle installing to a partially used HDD. Can sysinstall do that? *naive looks* I have heard o' wondrous a' tale about (hmmmm which was it Ubuntu or Xandros/theWindowsyLinux?) Linux installers that can shrink unused space of a current partition, and then go along its merry way and install to the other part of a HDD. So I guess my [I want what HE HAS..] question is - if I have Linux Fedora Core on my HDD which is using one huge single partition, what do I do so that I can install FreeBSD to the rest of the disk?? I miss FreeBSD. Thanks so much, All!!! -Peter hostmaster@video2video.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Garrett Cooper To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:48:23 -0800 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer? .. Also, an interesting thing is that sysinstall required (at least in my case) a clean filesystem / partition tables every time I tried to install. Whenever I installed with a partially or complete filesystem, sysinstall would die every single time when installing when fetching / extracting sources. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- <> ..