Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:30:57 -0700 From: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> To: artourbattle@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Creating second partition with Partition Magic? Message-ID: <SAK.2001.03.15.iegddakf@support10>
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Just shrink your windows partition down to I'm gonna say 6GB, that way you'll have 6GB for freebsd. Now you are going to have a 6GB partition that is just sitting there empty. When you install FBSD it'll recognize that partition as just empty and unused. On 03/15/2001 12:04:36 PM, "Smash" is quoted as saying: . . . .|Hi . . . .|I have windows98 it takes 4,5Gb on my 13Gb HDD from Maxtor. And want install Freebsd and use bsd together with win. But don't want lost my files, so I read in handbook about Partition Magic from PowerQuest http://www.powerquest.com/ which allows create partitions for several operation systems without missing information on another. So I've got PowerQuest PartitionMagic Pro 6.01 and found that can create partitions for: . . . .| Dos/Windows3.x . . . .| Windows95/98/Me . . . .| Windows NT . . . .| Windows 2000 . . . .| Linux . . . .| Os/2 I'm guessing all that does is format the partitions, but the FBSD install will also format them automatically for you, all you have to do is leave an empty space on the HD for FreeBSD, and to do that, just make ur windows partition smaller. . . . .|but what about Freebsd or I can choose Linux and install Freebsd on partition for Linux? . . . .|Hwo have experience please help me install Freebsd and keep alive Win98 without format my drive. . . . .|Thank's Artur . . . .| . . . .|<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> . . . .|<HTML><HEAD> . . . .|<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> . . . .|<META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> . . . .|<STYLE></STYLE> . . . .|</HEAD> . . . .|<BODY bgColor=#ffffff> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2>I have windows98 it takes 4,5Gb on my 13Gb HDD from Maxtor. . . . .|And want install Freebsd and use bsd together with win. But don't want lost my . . . .|files, so I read in handbook about Partition Magic from <A target= top . . . .|href="http://www.powerquest.com/"><FONT size=3>PowerQuest</FONT></A></FONT> <A . . . .|href="http://www.powerquest.com/"><FONT color=#000000><FONT . . . .|color=#800080>http://www.powerquest.com</FONT>/</FONT></A><FONT . . . .|size=2> which allows create partitions for several operation systems . . . .|without missing information on another. So I've got PowerQuest PartitionMagic . . . .|Pro 6.01 and found that can create partitions for:</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2> Dos/Windows3.x</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2> Windows95/98/Me</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2> Windows NT</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2> Windows 2000</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2> Linux</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2> Os/2</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2>but what about Freebsd or I can choose Linux and install . . . .|Freebsd on partition for Linux?</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2>Hwo have experience please help me install Freebsd and keep . . . .|alive Win98 without format my drive.</FONT></DIV> . . . .|<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank's Artur</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> . . . .| www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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