From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 24 15: 7:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF63837B405 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:07:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0039.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.39] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16f7jo-0006uW-00; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:07:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3C79721D.9AA65967@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:07:09 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Cc: Chip Morton , "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Drive/Partition Copying Utilities References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020224124537.018da7d0@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020224153046.01986c18@threespace.com> <3C796E32.8A1F4F97@pythonemproject.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rob wrote: > I am very interested in repartitioning my notebook. It has a 30gig > drive now with Win2k and FBSD, but I wish I could redo it for 3 > partitions of 10Gig so I can try a new OS like OpenBSD or Linux. Rob. I have a system set up with 4 partitions, like this, though I only boot the second and third (I use BootMagic; I created a FAT32 partition because BootMagic needed it). I'm not sure if the new OS is capable of booting that far into the disk, or not. Most must have their initial code loaded below 8G. You can usually do this by doing several parititions, and then seperating boot and data for the OS so all the boots are below the critical limit. See my posting last month on how to deal with it (the post had a subject prefix of "Re: FreeBSD Installer", and was sent 24 Jan 2002 to -chat). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message