Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:08:15 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk Message-ID: <4783F44F.5070303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080108155509.GD42838@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <4782EEF0.80809@gmail.com> <20080108155509.GD42838@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as >> partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion >> to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... >> after some research I found that vista absolutely insists that >> the ntfs partition be partition 1... how do I swap them and/or >> delete the ntfs one and renumber it so freebsd is in partion slot >> 2 (with nothing in 1 and then I can use fdisk to make a new slot >> 1) > > Well, you can use fdisk from the fixit shell to make your slice 2 > (note the primary divisions are called 'slices' in FreeBSD) in to a > FreeBSD type and then create your FreeBSD partitions in it and > build FreeBSD filesystems there. I think I should of been a little more specific the physical layout is completely correct (i.e. the sizes, start/end tracks, etc.) the only problem is the logical numbering of the partitions/slices in the mbr idea of the table... namely I just need to relabel them not modify them in any way. > > Then, still using the fixit, use dump/restore to copy the contents > of the FreeBSD filesystems over. Assuming the major slices are > ad0s1 and ad0s2, then something like: mkdir /oldroot mount /ad0s1a > /oldroot mkdir /newroot mount /ad0s2a /newroot cd /newroot dump 0af > - / | restore -rf - > > That will get the root partition/filesystem. Do appropriately > similar for the rest of the FreeBSD filesystems. > > Note that while in fixit, the running root (/) is in a memory > filesystem which will go away after you reboot. So, those mount > points you create (oldroot, newroot, etc) are temporary. > > Then use a utility such as gparted (freely downloadable as ISO) to > convert the #1 slice into NTFS and install Vista there. You might > be able to get FreeBSD's fdisk to do the convesion to NTFS, but I > have never tried that. You would have to know the code number for > it. > > ////jerry > >> - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools >> http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To >> unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHg/RPjRvRjGmHRgQRAmAIAJ9ez7kulB5P94ZeVUsY7rrnDo3hLwCgjNCW m54xx08yDK3m7lXN5/xsQ84= =+9FU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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