Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:12 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to install Windows on an existing partition? Message-ID: <e572718c05031011313d56344a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e572718c050310111638b6eac8@mail.gmail.com> References: <e572718c050310090147204d8e@mail.gmail.com> <20050310160455.013df4b0@ale.varnet.bsd> <e572718c050310111638b6eac8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:04:55 -0300, Alejandro Pulver
<alejandro@varnet.biz> wrote:
>
> Hello,
Hi there, thank you for your reply.
>
> Windows (and also a msdos filesystem, I think) needs a whole slice
> (thoose you edit with 'fdisk', called "partition" by Windows) to install
> (it does not understand a BSD slice with labels). You can also just
> leave some free space in the disk (the BSD slice must not cover the
> whole disk) and then Windows should create another partition (slice) to
> install itself.
>
This was my fear....
>
> I think your partition layout is as follows (sizes in Mbytes):
>
> | a 150 | b 1500 | d 5120 | g 9880 | e 20480 | f 20101 | END 0 |
> 0 150 1650 6770 16650 37130 57231
Right!
>
> So you will have to delete 'g', and move all the partitions before near
> to 'd'. Or in the other direction. Change the slice size ('fdisk').
I can delete 'g' withoud problems, but then:
- how do I move the partitions?
- how do I resize the slice (which takes the whole disk) ?
> If something of this looks unclear mail me.
Sure!
> Best Regards,
Cheers.
> Ale
>
> P.S.: how did you do to resize the partition 'd' to put 'g' after it
> (just changing the BSD labels)?
>
I deleted 'd', created a smaller 'd', and then created 'g'.
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