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Repartitioning FreeBSD
Just got here from being told on bsdforums to come here.
Currently I have my entire hard disk dedicated to FreeBSD. For a variety of reasons, I now need to repartition the drive to install Windows XP and FreeBSD. I'm not concerned with trying to save any data from the current installation and would like a completely new and clean install of FreeBSD. Any helps or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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RTFM, Handbook.
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Partitioning is covered in the handbook here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...all-steps.html |
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Use a tool you feel comfortable with to create a primary partition for XP and another one for FreeBSD.
To exchange date between these two you could create a third partition (FAT32 fileystem). Because XP sometimes messes around with the order of the partitions I would recommend the following:
After XP has been installed you install FBSD and the FBSD boot selector, which allows you after starting your box to choose between XP or FBSD. A cute alternative boot selectior is GAG (just google for it ) Good luck. BTW are you sure you don't want to backup your configuration files in "/etc" especially the X org configuration file?
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GAG rocks - highly recommend it!
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corey_james and J65nko, thanks for the replies that actually gave me useful information.
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