Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:34:37 -0800 From: Frysco! <francisco@vulpes.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing onto a Toshiba 2805-S201 Message-ID: <20001206103437.A99666@vulpes.net> In-Reply-To: <20001202023843.B1109@pir.net> References: <20001201232803.A636@vulpes.internal.vulpes.net> <20001202023843.B1109@pir.net>
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:38:43AM -0500, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Frysco! <francisco@vulpes.net> probably said: > > I've removed as much of the extraneous windows 'bumf' as I'm > > comfortable with, and have about 850Mb in use on the Windows. I've > > gone in with both FIPS and PResizer, and can't seem to reduce the > > Windows partition down to less than 1576Mb. > > Have you tried defragging the disk ? > > Although it is payware, I do recommend partition magic for this kind > of thing, it seems to deal a lot better. Well, I managed to get the thing installed finally, and it did take to resorting to Partition Magic - at least in some respect. I managed to get the Windows C: drive down further to just under 1gb (I think I got it to 1019Mb), booted up from the floppies and tried to allocate the remaining space to FreeBSD. Once again, however, I was told that the space I was trying to allocate was too big/unavailable/whatever. Finally, I got around this problem by going back into the partition editor, creating a 5Mb partition-of-no-real-consequence (meaning I didn't really care what ID it had), then adding the FreeBSD space behind that. Strangely enough, the label editor allowed me to slice up that parition fine after that - but I'm still not sure why. I gave FreeBSD about 3gb to play with, and put the remainder of the space at the end of the disk back to Windows. I guess it's not pretty, but at least it's working now. Thanks, -- Frysco! francisco@vulpes.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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