From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 03:12:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA5916A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:12:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5321F43D5A for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:12:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.0.49] (24.247.120.6.kzo.mi.chartermi.net [24.247.120.6]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id iAO3E3Il017916 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:14:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net: Host 24.247.120.6.kzo.mi.chartermi.net [24.247.120.6] claimed to be [192.168.0.49] X-Habeas-Swe-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) X-Habeas-Swe-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-Swe-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-Swe-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-Swe-1: winter into spring Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8B937954-3DC6-11D9-9123-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> X-Habeas-Swe-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-Swe-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lucas Holt X-Habeas-Swe-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-Swe-2: brightly anticipated Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:11:33 -0500 To: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/601/Mon Nov 22 08:40:21 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j08:40:21 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Deleting Extra Partitions & installing a second FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:12:53 -0000 My computer has the following partition scheme. Disk 0: (80 gig) 40MB Dell Utility Partition (fat) 48GB Windows XP Pro (NTFS) (remaining) FreeBSD 5.3 Release Disk 1: (40 gig) Full disk allocated to an NTFS volume for file storage I am using system commander 8.1 as a boot loader which is installed in the windows NTFS volume I would like to accomplish two things. First, I want to delete the dell partition and merge it into the windows partition. Are there any hurdles with freebsd in doing this? Do i need to change any boot config options for freebsd to find itself if I do this? Second, I'd like to install a second freebsd installation for development and testing purposes on the second hard drive (disk1). Most likely i'll install 5.3 and upgrade to 6-Current. Are there any issues I should be aware of in booting off a second disk or with two copies of freebsd on the same system? I know its possible to do it, just want to check on surprises first! Thanks in advance! Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)