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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!gs.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hp70.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!schaefer From: schaefer@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Arno Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 26 Nov 1995 19:02:53 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Lines: 30 Message-ID: <49adkt$133k@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <m2zqdjdegw.fsf@lily.sirius.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hp70.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:71991 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9310 Peter Seibel (seibel@sirius.com) wrote: : I have Linux up and running as the only OS on my machine. And I have a : 1.2 gig hard drive which is divided into one big partition (1.1 gig) : plus a small swap partition (the rest). How would I go about : installing FreeBSD so I can try it out without getting rid of Linux. : I suppose, after reading the O'Rielley, Running Linux book that I have : to repartition my hard drive but I have no good way to back it up : first. (That book was unclear on how to repartition a drive without : backing everything up first, though it mentioned DOS utilities that : could do it. Is there such a thing for Linux.) I don't think there is a nondestructive partition split utility for the ext2 file system. It would probably be a lot more difficult to write than a similare one for the DOS FAT file system. The latter is easy, because all you have to change is the partition table and boot sector (although it's still a lot of trouble until you get it running with each and every strange configuration in the world :-) So you will probably have to use fdisk and reinstall later. Best Regards, Arno -- Arno Schaefer - Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Informatik schaefer@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first.