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Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:13:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box
> 
> 
> I have a machine preinstalled with Windows XP and I do not want to remove
> it or reinstall it. Is there a way to install FreeBSD on the free space? I
> do not have Partition Magic. Any free software out there that can
> repartition without reinstallation?  Thanks.
> 
> -Zhihui
> 

Repartitioning is always at least *slightly* dangerous, so in any event 
back up your data. The safest/easiest way to do what you want is to get 
another hard drive, if you have the $$.

JB

PS: I'm sure Staples in Vestal has some cheap HDDs :)

#  John Bleichert 
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