From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 12:56:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D653637B62D for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.eagle.ca (mail2.eagle.ca [209.167.16.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E472C43E3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@brenius.com) Received: from afi (lagwagon-hs.eagle.ca [64.39.177.24]) by mail2.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g9MJjMI15503; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:45:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@brenius.com) Message-ID: <004501c27a05$2b03a700$be01a8c0@afi> From: To: Cc: "Matthew Seaman" References: <000801c27889$83abeb10$be01a8c0@afi> <20021021113307.GD27016@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Subject: Re: FDISK Partition Editor & Win2K Dual Boot Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:56:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman writes: > Uh --- that partition table you've posted doesn't correspond to the > logical layout you've given: there's no space between the ad0s1 (C:) > and ad0s2 (E:) slices. With the two tools (FreeBSD FDISK & Win2K Disk Management) I have to view the layout, the W2KDM displays a space between C: and E:. Hopefully this text illustration shows up OK: Primary "Extended" __________________ ____________________ _______________________ | C: 4.01 NTFS | Free Space | E: NTFS 10.62GB | | Healthy (System) | 4.01 GB | Healthy | __________________ ____________________ |_______________________ > I suppose your question then is "how can I divide up my current 15Gb > ad0s2 slice into a 5Gb ad0s2 slice and a 10Gb ad0s3 slice, preserving > the contents of the original ad0s2 into ad0s3, and using the new ad0s2 > for FreeBSD?" In more technical FreeBSD speak, yes! :) Or: Since this seems to be more difficult than originally thought, I am willing to copy all the data off of E: (back it up externally), then delete the E:, which I am assuming would allow me to install FreeBSD and dual boot with Win2K without loosing anything on C:? On a side note, I am not trying to start a flame war, but I am curious as to why Linux (specifically RedHat 7.3 and newer) was able to install into the "Free Space" outlined in the diagram above, while FreeBSD does not seem to be capable of doing so without 3rd party tools? Thank you! --Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message