Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 15:24:27 +0000 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyj@train.tgci.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, uh@NU.CS.FSU.EDU Subject: RE: Window NT 4.0 Message-ID: <199707072222.PAA07777@train.tgci.com>
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> You might try calling Microsoft customer support. > > On 08-Jul-97 Gang-Ryung Uh wrote: > >>Hello, > > > > I am considering to install FreeBSD to Window NT 4.0 server > > that runs on 2.1G disk. Are there any ways to install FreeBSD > > without repartitioning the orginal disk? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > >Gang-Ryung Uh > M$ isn't gonna help much... You didn't say, but if you're using a FAT filesystem, their's a free utility that will shrink an existing partition without damaging data. Think it's called fips and is available at http://www.freebsd.org If you use it, check the archives--there's been some sort of problem with mounting FAT filesystems from freebsd if the partition is over 1 GB--think it's been fixed but find out--it causes data loss. ASFAIK, Partition Magic is the only fdisk type utility that will allow you to repartition and shrink an NTFS disk. Since it also changes the cluster size you can avoid the problem that fips has. Personally I like Partition Magic--very nice little utility. Hope this helps, Riley
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