From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 17:01:28 2005 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 D13E816A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CAB43D3F for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so564449rng for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:01:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=iyHYwnBomfTwFgs4DkC36pat+/fqgUuDlsWmw4wZcyq257DVE4bXvQBHtLz2Cp6iOjBxIxn0a7lDE3W6utKjFicMuM023raXYghOfXrcFS+KiHSM5NG59P+J1NddPDXwaNSqki6a4CI6IohsmqzvbcidSufNlcA6YbECvHJD3fc= Received: by 10.38.125.43 with SMTP id x43mr1920675rnc; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.13.78 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:01:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:28 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti To: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: how to install Windows on an existing partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pietro Cerutti List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:28 -0000 Hi List, I need to install Windows on an existing partition of my laptop. At the moment I have this label: laptop# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 307200 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 b: 3072000 307200 swap c: 117210177 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 10485760 3379200 4.2BSD 0 0 0 e: 41943040 34099200 4.2BSD 0 0 0 f: 41167937 76042240 4.2BSD 0 0 0 g: 20234240 13864960 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 a: / b: swap c: extended d: /var e: /usr f: /home g: where I want to install windows I tried to format g: as FAT32, and I think it worked: laptop# newfs_msdos /dev/ad0s1g /dev/ad0s1g: 116981728 sectors in 14622716 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=16 hid=4197991296 bsec=117210240 bspf=114240 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2 But when I run bsdlaben /dev/ad0s1 I have the same result as above, so the g: partition is still formatted with 4.2BSD filesystem, so that Windows won't see this partition. How can I format this partition and make it visible to the Windows CD-ROM? Thank you! -- Pietro "Piter" Cerutti Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"