Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:46:03 +0100 (CET) From: Stevan Tiefert <stevan@rot-1.de> To: David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual boot with XP Message-ID: <20050302074129.U23359@mail.rot-1.de> In-Reply-To: <20050301232235.7a9f7bbb@sparrow> References: <20050301232235.7a9f7bbb@sparrow>
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, David Larkin wrote: > I'm going to by a laptop with wondoze XP pre installed soon. > > The machine will have one IDE disk. > > Am I right in thinking that I can install FreeBSD also without having to re-install XP ? > > I"ve searched the mailing list and found info on how to achieve dual boot with multiple disks< but how do i go about this, which I guess is a common task ? > > Is there a tutorial out there in cyberspace somewhere ???? > > Thanks > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hello David, it is possible to do this, but you need if the Windows XP NTFS-Partition is using the whole disk a partition-resizer. The free resizer of FreeBSD is not able to resize NTFS-Partions, but FAT16, VFAT and FAT32-partitions... You need a commercial resizer or you kill Windows XP and install it first, then create a partition for Windows XP but much more smaller, because of later when you want to install FreeBSD with boot-manager! With regards Stevan Tiefert
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