From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 12 9: 2:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9EF37B405 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6AADBD32; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22237; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:02:26 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9CG1qE50215; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Marty Landman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need help partitioning my hard drive References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011012092202.01d766d0@pop.ulster.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 12 Oct 2001 09:01:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011012092202.01d766d0@pop.ulster.net> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marty Landman writes: > I'm new to this and would like to learn how to partition my hard drive > which currently has FreeBSD installed on it. I'd then like to learn how > to install another OS on the new partition. I doubt that there's a way to do that without first getting some backup hardware and learning how to back up you current system and restore it to the newly-repartitioned disk. If you've only got the one disk, you'd have to install FreeBSD on one of the partitions to be able to restore the old OS to another partition and then replace the new FreeBSD with the other OS you want to install in the "new" partition. Might be better to just back up your private files for restoration to a clean FreeBSD install on the newly-repartitioned disk. IIRC, some of the closed-source partition managers can do what you want with Linux partitions; you might check them out to see if any support FreeBSD. (Better yet, ask them if they do; if not, next time they might.) As for instructions, I only know of the FreeBSD Handbook. A google search is likely to turn up some related article/tutorial at one of the FreeBSD-related web sites, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message