From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 13:30:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B3816A46B for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:30:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B6C13C465 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:30:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J0dGX-0001Te-Rp for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:29:17 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:29:17 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:29:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:32:47 +0100 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <3FCDB80A8B104BC1BCEF3A0696B55144@LenC2008922a26> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6E8C2A8B8BE0BAA4623DAD59" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) In-Reply-To: <3FCDB80A8B104BC1BCEF3A0696B55144@LenC2008922a26> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a PC with Windows 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: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:30:17 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6E8C2A8B8BE0BAA4623DAD59 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Morton wrote: > Anyway, I have a laptop preinstalled with Vista Home Premium and I woul= d > like to also run BSD on it. In reading your installation documentation= , I > do not see anything that suggests I can install FreeBSD onto my PC with= out > wiping Windows. There are several ways to do it but they all depend on you repartitioning your drive to hold an additional primary partition for FreeBSD. There are several commercial products that can do this reliably (I've only used Partition Magic) but I don't think there are open-source or free products with similar reliability. After you get the primary partition, you can most likely just install FreeBSD on it and it will "just work", offering you to choose between the Windows and the FreeBSD systems. --------------enig6E8C2A8B8BE0BAA4623DAD59 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHWUuFldnAQVacBcgRAn/CAJ4g/qkQXKEDApBmbB28tgB7cjJTQwCfUr+T A1IckD6ufleUfC7I/mP1RA0= =p8Fe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6E8C2A8B8BE0BAA4623DAD59--