Best way to install FBSD5.2.1 and Windows XP what proceedure to follow.

[Dave Tweten]

I don't think this discussion is laptop brand specific, so I comment 
below based upon my ThinkPad experience.

rob at dayton.homeip.net said:
>You don't have to trash anything. Use Partition Magic to shrink your
>WindowsXP partition and set up one for FreeBSD.

Sometimes you do.  Partition Magic didn't work for me because there 
were some Windows files it refused to move (probably kernel or paging 
files).  Those files had to be moved to make enough room.  So I backed 
up, repartitioned using the FreeBSD CD, and used the vendor's product 
recovery CD and the backup to recreate a Windows partition of the 
desired size.
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