From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 19:31:14 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 002AB16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7157243D4C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so607629rng for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:31:12 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=tNz9Nyn0Lp7lfwbE0hvezwUueDeb9QrxHRXKB9g09pAQ/qG1qzx2ihKcMI+EPwMbU95NA//65y6RKdu+H0ibWT7AGIhZOOgSf20SqA4kC2AdrxIpDIBer2R4A3gt+ycYEzdqUfQ0KUg2bKrGQ1+fFnrLqdtAw16v+VlRZmtYQQY= Received: by 10.38.81.1 with SMTP id e1mr2032774rnb; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.13.78 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:31:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:31:12 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti To: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050310160455.013df4b0@ale.varnet.bsd> Subject: Re: 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 19:31:14 -0000 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:04:55 -0300, Alejandro Pulver 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'. -- 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?"