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To: leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP
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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:24:27 +0100
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On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:27:45 +0100, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> On Sat,  9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST),  
> leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net wrote:
>> Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts.  Can FreeBSD 9.1 be
>> installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently
>> resides?
>
> Yes.
>
>
>
>> If so, how can this installation be done?
>
> First of all, you need a tool to make disk space available;
> you can do this by adding an additional hard disk, or by
> resizing the "Windows" partition. As "Windows" does not
> seem to provide native tools to do this

I may misremember, but Win7 does have a functional "shrink drive" in the  
drive administration console,
and I do think that was there in XP already.


Michael