From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 3:32:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4E037C19B for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp4.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.19]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA18477; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:31:29 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e5NARCK18897; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:27:12 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:27:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: krishna vallapareddy Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: can I install FREEBSD on windows NT Message-ID: <20000623132712.C17268@hades.hell.gr> References: <002b01bfdc18$76b7b520$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <002b01bfdc18$76b7b520$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se>; from james.wilde@tbv.se on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:07:01AM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:07:01AM +0200, James A Wilde wrote: > > Hi, Is it possible to install FREEBSD on a computer running windows NT > without creating new partitions but with free space available. FreeBSD uses it's own filesystem, i.e. format on the partitions that it is installed on. You will have to create a separate partition for FreeBSD. If the Windows NT partitions you have cover the entire disk, you can still get away by resizing the NT partitions (with tools like Partition-Magic), to make some of the free space available for FreeBSD. Some will argue that the Windows NT filesystem (NTFS) will become very un-optimal and lose some of it's performance if you resize it, though. I do not know if this is true, but if it is, the only way of installing both FreeBSD and NT on the same machine is to back your disks up, repartition, and install from scratch. Cheers. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message