From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 13:43:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7534C37B4D7 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp2.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.17]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA14039; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:43:06 -0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAJLPk514741; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:25:46 +0200 (EET) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:25:45 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Don Tait Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hmmmm Message-ID: <20001119232545.B14604@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from oak.island@home.com on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:27:09AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [-- message slightly reformatted --] On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:27:09AM -0700, Don Tait wrote: > Can I install freebsd now that I am already running Win98 ...Without > partioning or uninstalling the Win system? The short answer is 'depends'. The longer answer is one of: a) Yes, on a separate hard disk. With the low prices of disks nowadays, this is by far the safest option you have. b) Yes, if you can use PartitionMagic to resize your Windows partition to make some free space for BSD. I don't know much about PartitioMagic, since I do not use neither this nor Windows, but I've heard several people's success stories with partitions resized by PartitionMagic. - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message