docs/78138: Error in pre-installation section of installation chapter
Devon H. O'Dell
dodell at offmyserver.com
Sun Feb 27 09:40:01 UTC 2005
>Number: 78138
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Error in pre-installation section of installation chapter
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 27 09:40:00 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Devon H. O'Dell
>Release: N/A
>Organization:
Offmyserver
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
The handbook erroneously states that Partition Magic is the only
known tool that can resize NTFS partitions. Since the time of that
writing, several free and commercial tools have been developed that
also support resizing NTFS partitions.
This PR may be a duplicate of docs/71980, but I believe this patch
better addresses the issue at hand.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
The following patch should fix this problem. I was unsure how to
format ``Linux'' in the ``Linux LiveCD'' text where I mention
Knoppix, so that may need to be changed. I'm also not sure if the
links are proper. This patch should be carefully scrutinized :).
This patch also mentions the commercial BootIT NG utility that
was reported by Paul Colin Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster at ACM.org>.
--- share/sgml/trademarks.ent.old Sat Feb 19 15:51:27 2005
+++ share/sgml/trademarks.ent Sun Feb 27 09:20:27 2005
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Please keep this file sorted.
- $FreeBSD: doc/share/sgml/trademarks.ent,v 1.26 2005/02/19 15:51:27 simon Exp $
+ $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/dcvs/doc/share/sgml/trademarks.ent,v 1.26 2005/02/19 15:51:27 simon Exp $
-->
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.3com "<para>3Com and HomeConnect are registered
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.broadcom "<para>Broadcom is a registered trademark
of Broadcom Corporation and/or its subsidiaries.</para>">
<!ENTITY broadcom "<trademark class='registered'>Broadcom</trademark>">
+
+<!-- http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitng.pdf -->
+<!ENTITY tm-attrib.bootit "<para>BootIt, BootNow, and BurnCDCC are
+ trademarks of TeraByte Unlimited</para>">
+<!ENTITY bootit "<trademark>BootIt</trademark>">
<!-- http://www.checkpoint.com/copyright.html -->
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.check-point "<para>Check Point, Firewall-1, and
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml.old Sun Feb 13 10:24:08 2005
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml Sun Feb 27 09:20:07 2005
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml,v 1.319 2005/02/13 10:24:08 simon Exp $
+ $FreeBSD: /repoman/r/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml,v 1.319 2005/02/13 10:24:08 simon Exp $
-->
<chapter id="install">
@@ -269,20 +269,42 @@
want a graphical user interface. If you intend to install a lot of
third party software as well, then you will need more space.</para>
- <para>You can use a commercial tool such as <application>&partitionmagic;</application>
- to resize your partitions to make space for
- FreeBSD. The <filename>tools</filename> directory on the CDROM
- contains two free software tools which can carry out this task, namely
- <application>FIPS</application> and
- <application>PResizer</application>. Documentation for both
- of these is available in the same directory.
- <application>FIPS</application>,
- <application>PResizer</application>, and
- <application>&partitionmagic;</application> can resize
- <acronym>FAT16</acronym> and <acronym>FAT32</acronym>
- partitions — used in &ms-dos; through &windows; ME.
- <application>&partitionmagic;</application> is the only known
- application that can resize <acronym>NTFS</acronym>.</para>
+ <para>Several free and commercial tools are available for resizing and
+ managing partitions. The <filename>tools</filename> directory on the
+ CDROM contains two free software tools which can carry out this task:
+ <application>FIPS</application> and <application>PResizer</application>.
+ These tools can resize FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, the filesystems
+ used in &ms-dos; through &windows; ME. Documentation for using both of
+ these tools exists in the same directory as the tools themselves.</para>
+
+ <para>Like <application>FIPS</application> and
+ <application>PResizer<application>, commercial tools such as
+ <application>&partitionmagic;</application> and
+ <application>&bootit; Next Generation</application> are available
+ for the same task. These and other similar commercial tools generally
+ support resizing a greater range of partition types than the
+ aforementioned free tools. Both
+ <application>&partitionmagic;</application> and
+ <application>&bootit; Next Generation</application> support resizing
+ NTFS partitions. NTFS is the filesystem used in &windows; NT
+ platforms, including the &windows; 2000, XP and 2003 operating
+ systems.</para>
+
+ <para>Recently, several free alternatives to these commercial tools have
+ been developed. Tools such as <application>ntfsresize</application>
+ exist and are well capable of resizing NTFS partitions.
+ <application>QTParted</application>, a
+ <application>&partitionmagic;</application> clone, provides a friendly
+ user interface useful for resizing many different partition types.
+ <application>QTParted</application> supports resizing NTFS partitions
+ through the <application>ntfsresize</application> utility.
+ <application>QTParted</application> and
+ <application>ntfsresize</application> are available to download at
+ <ulink url="http://qtparted.sourceforge.net"></ulink> and
+ <ulink
+ url="http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html"></ulink>,
+ respectively. The <ulink url="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix</ulink>
+ Linux LiveCD is a bootable CD that includes QTParted.</para>
<warning>
<para>Incorrect use of these tools can delete the data on your disk.
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