Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 12:30:11 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot Message-ID: <20090508103011.GA6364@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr> References: <20090506085405.GA5251@rebelion.Sisis.de> <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr>
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El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió:
> Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel ->
> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Right
> click on the partition and select to shrink. The amount that it will
> allow you to shrink will vary (probably depends on the fragmentation)
> but I guess you will be able to get 50G on a 200G disk. Then install
> FreeBSD as usual, but do not allow it to install any boot manager (it
> will mess with Vista's BCD system). After installing, use EasyBCD (free
> download) within Vista to add FreeBSD to the boot menu.
Hi Manolis,
I've fetched EasyBCD and installed it in the Vista.
Just to make sure: The 180 GB partition is visible as /dev/ad8s4 to
the CURRENT booted from USB and I will just label it as:
# bsdlabel -w ad8s4 auto
# bsdlabel -B ad8s4
edit the disk label and change partition "a" from "unused" to "4.2BSD"
as partition type:
# setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi
# bsdlabel -e ad8s4
create the filesystem on it and mount it to /mnt for the installation:
# newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad8s4a
# mount /dev/ad8s4a /mnt
and install CURRENT into /mnt:
# cd /usr/src
# make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt
# make installkernel DESTDIR=/mnt KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t
# make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=/mnt
# make distribution DESTDIR=/mnt
...
Any comments?
Thx
matthias
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