Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 27, 2009 a las 02:57:10PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Concerning EasyBCD, it tries always in unattended mode to boot the damn Vista and not the other FreeBSD partition which I have i 1st place in the boot menu, i.e. if you just switch on the laptop and go for coffee,

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 03:56:41PM +0200, Leslie Jensen escribió: I've done this a few times and the best procedure is to use the Parted magic CD and resize the partition. The Vista shrink tool is not something I would recommend. You don't have to think of defragging when you

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for some investigations, or

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Anders Troback
On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: 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

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Leslie Jensen
Anders Troback skrev: On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: 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