Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:02:09 -0500 From: RoadRunner <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: janag@mailbox.gr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi question Message-ID: <20020402230209.5127750c.scottro@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3CAA76A3.3080502@cream.org> References: <DNEMKDKHENOLMBGIJFIGIEHBCAAA.janag@mailbox.gr> <3CAA76A3.3080502@cream.org>
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On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 04:27:31 +0100 Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> wrote: > John Anagnostakis wrote: > > is ti safe enough to install freebsd on a machine which has > > windows 2000 installed? > > It is completely safe........ so long as you know what you are doing > :-) > > The machine that I'm writing this on dual-boots FreeBSD and Windows > 2000. > > You need to have some spare, unpartitioned space on a drive in your > machine. This can be the same or a different drive from your Windows > 2000 installation. If your current Windows installation uses your > whole drive, and you don't want to add another, you will need to > look into resizing that partition which is something I don't know > much about. > > Also, at least at present, FreeBSD will need a primary (as opposed to a logical drive in an extended partition) partition. (That's one that I found out the hard way. ) :) Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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