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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?
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Date: 26 Nov 1995 19:02:53 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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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

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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.