From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 14:38: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD91437B64B for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat9.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.201]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id AAA15977 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:37:44 +0300 Received: (qmail 2712 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Apr 2000 15:22:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:22:22 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: spider 90 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partitions Message-ID: <20000405182222.E1808@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000405021424.40418.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000405021424.40418.qmail@hotmail.com>; from spider90@hotmail.com on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:14:24AM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:14:24AM +0000, spider 90 wrote: > Howdy folks:) Attempting to install freebsd and linux on my > 30gig hard drive. I already have windows 98 there and would like to > partion 5gigs to freebsd, another to linux, then the rest leave to > the already existing windows o/s. What is the best route. I read > in complete freebsd that fips doesnt work on some newer microsoft > filesystems. Should I use partition magic or is there better program > to accomplish this? If you have the program, then use partition magic, to resize the windows partition. First defrag your Windows partition, to make shrinking by partition magic easier. Then shrink it to make 10 Gb of space, and if possible, move it to the end of the disk's area (this is nice to do because I'm not sure if BSD can boot from a partition that's way into your disk's area -- like one that starts at 5 Gb). Right before installing, you should have your disk separated in: 0 - 10 Gb: free area 10 Gb - end: windows C: drive At the end of installations you should have: 0 - 5 Gb: freebsd slice 5 - 10 Gb: linux primary partition 10 Gb: windows C: drive If you want to use a primary partition for a linux swap partition, you can change this to include a small primary partition as linux swap. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message