Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:11:46 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <3C5353D2.ACC62BD@mindspring.com> References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020124213809.00e6e5d0@localhost> <20020125131659.GB7374@hades.hell.gr> <3C51CD33.4E69B204@mindspring.com> <001b01c1a635$636a4170$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020126003431.A77505@HAL9000.wox.org> <y4wuy46bza.uy4@localhost.localdomain> <20020126164014.B810@HAL9000.wox.org>
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David Schultz wrote: > Multiboot works just fine right now, but it's not going to resize your > NTFS partition for you. I previously argued that effort would be > better spent fixing other things that can go wrong with the install, > but Terry sez resizing NTFS should be easy. The FreeBSD controllable part of it is the FreeBSD installer partitioning. Putting Partition Magic functionality into a free program is a bit harder for Windows XP. It requires the ability to write to NTFS partitions, minimally. Resizing is less of a problem, but is still problematic (and still requires the ability to write). > That would be a neat idea, and it couldn't be hard to implement. > After all, we can already create filesystems in memory. Nevertheless, > there are too many levels of indirection. It would only be a > marketing gimmick, not something suitable for long-term use. At some > point, the installer needs to work. Yes. Plus it could not really be safely read/write, unless you mapped out the sectors in one large file, and only modified them after getting their location from the NTFS. There is currently no capability for getting the file sector list for a file, within FreeBSD (interestingly, Windows has the ability to do this, as an OS service). No matter how you look at it, work is required. I've been communicating the information to the Partition Magic people, at least as far as necessary to modify the way it works with Boot Magic and Partition Magic, and Boot Magic hidden partition interactions. Hopefully, something will come of that. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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