Jerry -
Thank you for your email - that pretty much cleared everything up.
I am quite definitely installing FreeBSD (5.3) - not Linux - sorry about the
many misleading mentions of Linux. Those crept in because many of the tips I
had googled seemed to mention Linux utilities (such as boot
Hi -
I need help partitioning a laptop (using PartitionMagic) which already
has WinXP-Pro on it, so it can dual-boot FreeBSD.
I kind of wonder why you are asking on this (FreeBSD questions) list.
I don't see any FreeBSD installation in the plan you outline.
SUMMARY
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I'm
Hi -
I need help partitioning a laptop (using PartitionMagic) which already has
WinXP-Pro on it, so it can dual-boot FreeBSD.
SUMMARY
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I'm thinking of doing the following layout (things I'm unsure about are in
brackets [...]):
- boot (Z:) - FAT [or FAT32?]- 2MB [less/more?] - primary
Maude User on 2005-03-27 19:47:30 -0800:
I need help partitioning a laptop (using PartitionMagic) which
already has WinXP-Pro on it, so it can dual-boot FreeBSD.
FreeBSD uses disk slices as opposed to partitions; decide how much
space you want FreeBSD to take up (including swap) and set that
