From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 16:19: 5 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 3EAAD37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D6943E3B for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-209.246.213.74.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.213.74] helo=sparky) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 185Dij-00023F-00; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:18:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box References: Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:19:05 -0400 User-Agent: Opera M2 7.0 build 2291 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 On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:47:52 -0400 (EDT), Zhihui Zhang wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Zhihui Zhang >> To: Jerry McAllister >> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:22:23 -0400 (EDT) >> Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box >> Jerry: >> Hi, Zhihui. If you care to make the BootItNG >> partition smaller (though it looks as if you have >> plenty of space), you can uninstall it, resize your >> partition(s) to cover the newly opened space, and >> reinstall BootItNG. You don't have to create a >> dedicated partition for it. It will create its >> own 8mb FAT partition if installed to a drive >> without one. > > I tried to let it create its own partition, but failed. I can probably > make the partition smaller if I use FAT16 instead of FAT32, which > requires > some minimum space per partition. > > -Zhihui Now that I think about it a bit more, perhaps I'm wrong about that. I think I had a FAT32 disk and asked BING to install itself on an NTFS/FBSD RAID volume using two other disks. It took up only 8mb on the RAID volume, but that was likely just the boot stuff - the rest of the files went to the FAT disk, probably. One other thing from the message that vanished into the aether, and the reason I'm not using BING as my bootloader any more - adding Linux to the boot menu is not automagic, it involves a fair amount (15-30 minutes) of fiddling. Why FBSD is 2 seconds and automatic, while Linux is not, you'll have to ask BING's author. (You can, there's a mailing list.) -- Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message