Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot Message-ID: <20090506120827.GA10242@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr> References: <20090506085405.GA5251@rebelion.Sisis.de> <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr>
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El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel -> > Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Right > click on the partition and select to shrink. The amount that it will > allow you to shrink will vary (probably depends on the fragmentation) > but I guess you will be able to get 50G on a 200G disk. I did so and was only allowed to shrink the partition to some 125 GByte. I even moved before the swap to some other partition, reserved for of DELL recovery. I re-booted and hoped that it let me now shrink the 125 even more, but no luck. So, at the moment I only have around 100 GByte for FreeBSD free, which is a lot, compared with other servers I have here. > Then install > FreeBSD as usual, but do not allow it to install any boot manager (it > will mess with Vista's BCD system). After installing, use EasyBCD (free > download) within Vista to add FreeBSD to the boot menu. Thanks for the hint. matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.
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