From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 19: 4:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178C837B400 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.214.210.234.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.210.234] helo=sparky) by granger.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16jtdd-0007kE-00; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:04:46 -0500 From: Jud To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Fook Sheng Chan Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:04:41 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020308024823.82608.qmail@web13609.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <3ZA0UPD01UNJJHSM97XWGDQM43065Z75.3c8acd49@sparky> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD over WinNT and Win2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" X-Mailer: Opera 6.02 build 1056 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 3/7/2002 9:48:23 PM, Fook Sheng Chan wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:48:23 -0800 (PST) > From: Fook Sheng Chan > > Subject:Installing FreeBSD over WinNT and Win2000 > To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > Hi > > I have a 20G harddisk. The first 4GB is Windows NT(c:\). The next 4GB is > Windows 2000 (D:\). The rest is not partitioned. > > > But when I tried to install FreeBSD 4.4.1, I can only see the first 4GB > partition (c:\), and the rest ( D drive and the free space) appears as one > USED partition. So I will be forced to deleted this partition in order to > install FreeBSD, I'm hoping that you may tell me an alternative. > > > > > All help are appreciated. > > Thank you > > > Fook Sheng Hello, Fook Sheng. When installing Win2000 on a drive where Win9x or WinNT already exists, an extended partition is automagically created that covers everything the older Windows version doesn't. In other words, on your 20gb drive, where the first 4gb are WinNT, a 16gb extended partition is created covering the rest of the drive. Your 4gb Win2000 partition is then (again automatically) configured as a logical partition within this extended partition. So what FreeBSD is showing you is correct. If you boot using DOS, fdisk will show you the same information. I am sure others will have more elegant solutions, but what I did in a similar situation (Win98, Win2000, FreeBSD) was to install FreeBSD second on the disk after Win98, then install Win2000 third. If you don't want to delete your existing Win2000 installation, then one of the available partitioning utilities may allow you to move it. Partition Magic is probably the best known. I also once used BootIt NG (shareware, http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/) to do some resizing and moving of partitions and it worked well, though it was not the situation involving logical-partition-within-extended-partition we're discussing here. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message