Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 12:30:11 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot Message-ID: <20090508103011.GA6364@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr> References: <20090506085405.GA5251@rebelion.Sisis.de> <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr>
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El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel -> > Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Right > click on the partition and select to shrink. The amount that it will > allow you to shrink will vary (probably depends on the fragmentation) > but I guess you will be able to get 50G on a 200G disk. Then install > FreeBSD as usual, but do not allow it to install any boot manager (it > will mess with Vista's BCD system). After installing, use EasyBCD (free > download) within Vista to add FreeBSD to the boot menu. Hi Manolis, I've fetched EasyBCD and installed it in the Vista. Just to make sure: The 180 GB partition is visible as /dev/ad8s4 to the CURRENT booted from USB and I will just label it as: # bsdlabel -w ad8s4 auto # bsdlabel -B ad8s4 edit the disk label and change partition "a" from "unused" to "4.2BSD" as partition type: # setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi # bsdlabel -e ad8s4 create the filesystem on it and mount it to /mnt for the installation: # newfs -m 0 -o space /dev/ad8s4a # mount /dev/ad8s4a /mnt and install CURRENT into /mnt: # cd /usr/src # make installworld DESTDIR=/mnt # make installkernel DESTDIR=/mnt KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t # make distrib-dirs DESTDIR=/mnt # make distribution DESTDIR=/mnt ... Any comments? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.
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