Re: Dual boot: FBSD-Vista & FDISK problem

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:30:58 -0400
Mark Vasles <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I have a Toshiba laptop with Vista on it. The HD is 160Gb. The default
partitions on the drive were resized to make 50Gb free at the end of
the disk for FreeBSD. The HD has now 4 partitions:

-Snip -

Can someone help! This seems a lost cause...
Thanks
--
Mark



Have a closer look at yr Toshiba pre-load.
You can be rid of the default C, D drive setup forgotten exact details
but have done it a few times (Most windows USERS have no idea the D
drive exists! Complain drive is smaller than specified etc)
- I just install Win on C so they don't need to think...

I loaded Windows XP first and made partitions from XP, used Linux,
FreeBSD fdisk to set partition types.

Here (desktop) 160Gb drive:

Partition 1, 49Gb: Windows Vista
Partition 2, 34Gb: FreBSD
Partition 3, 31Gb: Linux
Partition 4 Extended:
31Gb Windows XP FAT32 (Boot is on Partition 1)+ 1Gb Linux swap
Grub (or Lilo) FreeBSD, Linux, Windows.
- Windows dual booting older version of windows (XP) or Vista.

If you do standard pre-load then:
Transfer any data from D: to C:
Delete or shrink D: (With Vista Disk Management) and create a new
empty partition for FreeBSD

FreeBSD Boot loader, Grub, Lilo or Gag diskette will allow booting
Vista.

Otherwise a Linux and or FreeBSD are a lot more efficient tan Vista...




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