From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 9 20:49:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FC8C22 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 20:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm19-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm19-vm0.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D593999 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 20:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.49] by nm19.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2013 20:49:29 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.75] by tm2.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2013 20:49:29 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp112.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2013 20:49:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1362862169; bh=+qRViWCtjb02zNBVZlhniSStQrj+MigR/0JEGKIejus=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2X6u/59OaSDNwqoACpcGnxaxVw2RjH4Aq11IesfnZLB/adJM7ZDBmJaytKlA//nYYZ1UvVdTDLYSUcWZwTlCnq1lQwGehOb87ayfMojL6VWg8ZUn+m7JGCkaJ64pwCVDSZ52uvaAEmMxLvhL4lLM3uahvzy7bElKKEGJHK+ydfs= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 707388.21955.bm@smtp112.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: Czle1rQVM1nbYbKDLXGKWwUR0szVA.5YOc1UYAm2oq_XNK2 .zS5xAtZUA4QDE8lRwhQ0q4jxvXXMvwF80He_OszpUHXkpdU2iFJue9gzfBB n1UbJ3a6srvKNYvpqZ6GOhqClSRnjKj4rx4t5tQscvF.CnLoH8NdZWR0v4Kc fJEGLeDxHZ9LwHkDJTSF2l8Q557aqPFK.QMQDFJS3BsOOIqmUIM1K.e3E85z gsBn5rRXIgF44LPKgxEd7iphsSkcOyu6_ybd4wEG4MeGxrwp7PFadTKzY2Yr Ee4bP0fS9lUuUQlYroia41mh8wEDmvPnoY0Nx0l8bntJLis4grgNpuFB9Ayw 59kwnCDnnpaHmfCCM.CQ783gDQnfKTDnbguWch5YIQmYBuVkqcYRMqvtc6uV yRn5h6LwNbRA3oALxvzvJzl9LYpGtBAZf2BRrSYhvKgh10WEnGmzh.Rj0R8Z 2kllFqaCvV.tFKzRfLnk1sx37342Ero6w.9.ExqhaGkZoMJS.tVeLAfSEc2j 67jW1DA8A3B_smFPJEqruul.qzDCehb5I X-Yahoo-SMTP: DA3qLniswBBZgRt2JJU8mgA5oHKX4bbYJ__UUAz6K3gYMeVbbg5Qkg-- Received: from [78.50.20.253] (info.mardorf@78.50.20.253 with login) by smtp112.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 09 Mar 2013 20:49:29 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <1362862169.593.110.camel@archlinux> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:49:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20130309212745.c875489b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130309120741.DED57767@ms5.mc.surewest.net> <20130309212745.c875489b.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:49:35 -0000 On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:27 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > "Partition Magic" I would avoid to use proprietary software, ntfs, fat16 and fat32 are full supported by Linux gparted, available for free as in beer at http://partedmagic.com as a live media. Perhaps you need to defragment the Windows partitions first. You need to add a primary partition for FreeBSD, an extended partition with logical partitions can't be used to install FreeBSD. I've got FreeBSD and tons of Linux installed, no Windows. However, my partition table is MBR based, as yours. Gparted can't create the FreeBSD slice, you need to do this with e.g. the FreeBSD installer. I had to use 8.3 and than to update to 9.1, I tested 9.0 first, but I couldn't create the slice, resp. the partitions in that slice. Hth, Ralf -- http://sacom.hk/mission