From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 15 11:29:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4875137B71A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 19:29:31 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:30:57 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: artourbattle@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re:Creating second partition with Partition Magic? Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|

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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:

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Dos/Windows3.x

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Windows95/98/Me

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Windows NT

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Windows 2000

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Linux

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Os/2

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but what about Freebsd or I can choose Linux and install . . . .|Freebsd on partition for Linux?

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Hwo have experience please help me install Freebsd and keep . . . .|alive Win98 without format my drive.

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Thank's Artur

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