On Sat, January 16, 2016 1:57 am, Anders Jensen-Waud wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Eleonora Marchioretti via freebsd-doc < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> I would like to know if it is possible to install UNIX (not Linux) on a >> laptop that has already a Windows OS and if you have instructions to do >> it.Thank you in advance. >> Best regardsEleonora >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" >> > > If you don't want to replace Windows (that is, do dual boot), an option > is > to first repartition the disk using Gparted or similar from a usb based > Linux distribution such as Knoppix. Install Knoppix onto a USB drive, boot > from it and start Gparted to resize your Windows partition and make space > for the FreeBSD partition. Remember to back up your data before doing > this. > > (See http://gparted.org/faq.php#faq-7)
Alternatively, you can make free space using Windows Disk management tool: shrink Windows main partition. The rest: as Andreas describes. Valeri > > Once done, start the FreeBSD install as usual, installing to the free > space > on your drive. You will need to install the FreeBSD boot loader to the MBR > in order to do multi-boot. > > Cheers > > Anders > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[email protected]" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
