From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 16:49:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BA137B405 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:49:02 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id DF588BA05; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:49:02 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "HODGE, DAVE (SBCSI)" , "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: does FREEBSD work with either "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magic" b y Power Quest? Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:49:02 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020318160431.25199.qmail@operamail.com> In-Reply-To: <20020318160431.25199.qmail@operamail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020319004902.DF588BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 | > I'm trying to utilize one boot method for many various OS systems that I | > need to run for evaluation. What I'm trying to find out is do you know if | > the Power Quest product "Partition Magic" or "Boot Magic" have been | > successfully used with FREEBSD OS? If yes, how were the products | > utilized? Partition Magic does not deal with FreeBSD partitions. FreeBSD demands to have one primary partition, and subdivides within that space itself. (To keep everybody confused, it calls these primary partitions "slices.") Parition Magic is useful to prepare an existing disk to receive FreeBSD, but it cannot resize or move an existing FreeBSD partition. BootMagic could probably handle FreeBSD fine, though I find FreeBSD's own BootEasy to be better (because it remembers the *previous* boot target and uses that as the default--this is almost always what I want and I know of no other boot program that behaves this way). -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message