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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.att.net.hk!elausrv2.att.net.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.netinfo.com.au!not-for-mail From: Peter Davie <pdavie@netinfo.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD co-existing with NT 4.0 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:16:05 +1100 Organization: topic Systems Australia P/L Lines: 92 Message-ID: <32E44305.67E8@netinfo.com.au> Reply-To: pdavie@netinfo.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: spd.netinfo.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------283014DC24097" X-Sender: Peter Davie <pdavie@netinfo.com.au> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (WinNT; I) To: pdavie@netinfo.com.au X-Priority: Normal Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34258 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------------283014DC24097 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------54D559D7C808" ------------54D559D7C808 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I have bowed to commercial pressure and installed Windows NT 4.0 on my new server. Now I am looking to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 (I'm sure 2.1.6 will arrive very soon after I solve this problem!) and have found that the NT installation has created a 1.8Gb extended partition, (without even asking!) used just over 1Gb of it and now I have 800Mb I can't use for a FreeBSD installation! How do I shrink the extended partition so that I can create a primary partition for FreeBSD? I know there's the nuke the NT partition and reinstall, but I would prefer not doing that if I can avoid it... Any help would be appreciated. Peter --- ------------54D559D7C808 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2>Hi,</FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2> </FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2>I have bowed to commercial pressure and installed Windows NT 4.0 on my new server. Now I am looking to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 (I'm sure 2.1.6 will arrive very soon after I solve this problem!) and have found that the NT installation has created a 1.8Gb extended partition, (without even asking!) used just over 1Gb of it and now I have 800Mb I can't use for a FreeBSD installation!</FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2> </FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2>How do I shrink the extended partition so that I can create a primary partition for FreeBSD? I know there's the nuke the NT partition and reinstall, but I would prefer not doing that if I can avoid it...</FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2> </FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2>Any help would be appreciated.</FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2> </FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2>Peter</FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2> </FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2>---</FONT></DT> <DT><FONT SIZE=-2> </FONT></DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------54D559D7C808-- ------------283014DC24097 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Address Book Card for Peter Davie Content-Disposition: inline; filename="nsmail0M.TMP" Content-Type: text/x-vCard; charset=us-ascii; name="nsmail0M.TMP" BEGIN:VCARD FN:Peter Davie N:Davie;Peter ORG:topic Systems Australia Pty Ltd ADR:;;1 Hall Street;Lyneham;ACT;2602 EMAIL;INTERNET:pdavie@netinfo.com.au TITLE:Director, Technical Services TEL;WORK:+61 6 257 6500 TEL;FAX:+61 6 257 8922 X-NAV-HTML:F END:VCARD ------------283014DC24097--