> > I have a 20gb hard drive .... 10gb is free, and its NTFS partition. > > How would i go about installing FreeBSD on a daulboot? .... when Fdisk is > started do i create a slice?
First, read all you can find - handbook, OnLamp, etc about creating a dual boot machine. For example: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html and more. Then, if you are going to completely reuse the NTFS slice, you can probably just boot up to sysinstall and select that slice to install on and let 'r rip. The sysinstall will give you a list of available slices and you just select where you want it to go. But, if you are uncomfortable with that, you will need to get a copy of Partition Magic (about $69 in stores like Best Buy) and use it to remake the slice which it will call partition. Delete it and recreate it as a fat32 and then go back and do the install. There are some freeware utilities that can do resizing and making of slices such as fips, but I don't know of any that will handle NTFS type MS Partitions. Partition Magic is the most know commercial one and there are some other commercial ones, but I haven't tried them. When you do the install, just make sure you have the sysinstaller mark the slice as bootable and install the standard FreeBSD MBR on the disk. It is a bit limited in labeling - it will recognize and boot any MS LINUX or FreeBSD type of slice, but it doesn't have names for some of them so it calls them ??? in the boot menu it puts up. If you can live with that, it will work fine. If you must have a nice looking menu with names, then you can install grub or something like it later. ////jerry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
