From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 13:48:52 2002 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 095AF37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B74D43E75 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from onyx ([128.226.182.171]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9PKlqf04676; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:47:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:47:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@onyx To: Jud Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box In-Reply-To: <1035577942.ad00cb80jud@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zhihui Zhang > To: Jerry McAllister > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:22:23 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box > > Jerry: > > Hi, Zhihui. If you care to make the BootItNG > partition smaller (though it looks as if you have > plenty of space), you can uninstall it, resize your > partition(s) to cover the newly opened space, and > reinstall BootItNG. You don't have to create a > dedicated partition for it. It will create its > own 8mb FAT partition if installed to a drive > without one. I tried to let it create its own partition, but failed. I can probably make the partition smaller if I use FAT16 instead of FAT32, which requires some minimum space per partition. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message