Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:24:27 +0100 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and Windows XP Message-ID: <op.wto9u1mmg7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <20130309212745.c875489b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130309120741.DED57767@ms5.mc.surewest.net> <20130309212745.c875489b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:27:45 +0100, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST), > leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net wrote: >> Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be >> installed on a computer on which Windows XP currently >> resides? > > Yes. > > > >> If so, how can this installation be done? > > First of all, you need a tool to make disk space available; > you can do this by adding an additional hard disk, or by > resizing the "Windows" partition. As "Windows" does not > seem to provide native tools to do this I may misremember, but Win7 does have a functional "shrink drive" in the drive administration console, and I do think that was there in XP already. Michael
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