From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 22 01:06:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643D716A403 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C882843D46 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:05:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h2so351348nfe for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:05:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jjFAGk8io2kavyDbrQnYO4/iJARQeDcfI3f7UkWallIiprC1dqu6obfUqHJ16278kArrWnkRvACNh2uizL0OMeSHj3kL3DfvLiGCBQFtq8Hid5ECblt8orYzY6RmvHafvsJFBHNCUebs64dnVqujbnO13rVdgRZyUlhKXfMgNU4= Received: by 10.82.175.2 with SMTP id x2mr1146362bue.1164157553364; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.1 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:05:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:05:53 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20061121162323.GB45815@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ec7836e0611201838k3724fa2cub2144a4275530fe0@mail.gmail.com> <20061121162323.GB45815@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Cc: rickie lyman Subject: Re: I don't see anything to answer my q X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:06:08 -0000 On 11/21/06, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:38:26PM -0500, rickie lyman wrote: > > > I am a newbee and sometimes Dizzy too. My question is I have a computer that > > has a rather large drive but it is all formated in NTFs and yes it has XP > > Pro on it how would I be able to put Free BSD on there without loosing the > > files I have with the other operating system?? I told you that I was > > confused. > > First, is there plenty of empty space on that disk. If you have > used up all the space with something, then you can't do it on that > disk. You will have to add one. > > But, more than likely, you haven't used up the space - there is probably > lots, more than half still unfilled. So, then, no problem. > > You will have to use some utility to shrink the existing NTFS file > system on the drive. > > As far as I know, there are no freeware utilities that will do this > for NTFS. The ones that come with FreeBSD will handle fat and fat32 > just fine, but not NTFS. A quick Gogol* led me to this: http://www.linuxmigration.com/quickref/install/disk.html Which mentions Man-drake 9.1 (& therfor is of dubious currency: http://www.mandriva.com/ ), though one might assume that many of thee Torvaldsians's so-called "distros" might do similarly. In other words: try a linux live CD/DVD. I would try knoppix, because I have a CD, except that I do not have an NTFS anything handy to test it myself. Otherwise, McAllister's writeup is sound, sane, and probably as in-depth as you can hope for. *http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=resize+ntfs -- --