From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 19:16:53 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 6FC0A16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:16:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F2843D2F for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:16:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i6IJGe014601; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:16:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200407181916.i6IJGe014601@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: aaron@snaphat.com (Aaron Myles Landwehr) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:16:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <40F8B7FD.7010908@snaphat.com> from "Aaron Myles Landwehr" at Jul 17, 2004 01:24:13 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem while installing 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: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:16:53 -0000 > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Is that a new one on the market? I haven't seen that one before. > > > No its not new, just not popular. > > > Partition Magic has been the only one readily available off the shelf > > in this area. Others have to be mail-ordered. It handled NTFS fine > > for me, though that was for Win2k. If it is NTFS and > > it is from the boot floppies, I don't see why being win2k3 would > > matter, but I avoid Microsloth stuff as much as possible so don't > > know any of the details there. > > > > > The acronis one installs in windows and lets you configure how you want > you want to resize, > etc in windows, then reboots to do its job. I initially tried > partition magic, but i couldn't get it to install; on 2k3. > However I never tried boot floppies. OK. I was never able to get Partition Magic to do anything that required actually mucking with the slice sizes with an installed one - when that meant resizing the actuall slice I was booted on. I had to make the boot floppies and that worked just fine - with somewhat less pretty graphics (but who cares). ////jerry > -Aaron Myles Landwehr > (Oops originally forgot to send back questions@)