From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 6 12:08:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 091531065680 for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 12:08:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from dd12710.kasserver.com (dd12710.kasserver.com [85.13.134.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95288FC1B for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 12:08:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from rebelion.Sisis.de (cazador.sisis.de [193.31.11.193]) by dd12710.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D83318516EB5; Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id n46C8RAR010312; Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20090506120827.GA10242@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090506085405.GA5251@rebelion.Sisis.de> <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4A0165EA.1060003@otenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (i386) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 12:08:32 -0000 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. I did so and was only allowed to shrink the partition to some 125 GByte. I even moved before the swap to some other partition, reserved for of DELL recovery. I re-booted and hoped that it let me now shrink the 125 even more, but no luck. So, at the moment I only have around 100 GByte for FreeBSD free, which is a lot, compared with other servers I have here. > 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. Thanks for the hint. matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.