From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 07:02:11 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 1CFBD16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:02:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rot-1.de (rot-1.de [213.146.120.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D64843D1F for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:02:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stevan@rot-1.de) Received: from mail.rot-1.de (localhost.rot-1.de [127.0.0.1]) by mail.w33 (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j226k4QU023380; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:46:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stevan@mail.rot-1.de) Received: from localhost (stevan@localhost)j226k4Mv023377; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:46:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stevan@mail.rot-1.de) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:46:03 +0100 (CET) From: Stevan Tiefert To: David Larkin In-Reply-To: <20050301232235.7a9f7bbb@sparrow> Message-ID: <20050302074129.U23359@mail.rot-1.de> References: <20050301232235.7a9f7bbb@sparrow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Dual boot with XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 07:02:11 -0000 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