Re: installing DFly over third partition

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-04-13 19:36, Saverio Iacovelli wrote:
> > Severino,
> >
> > you can used fdisk as usual. Make a partition for
> > DragonFly, then boot from 
> > the DragonFly CD. There's an option to use a part of
> > a harddisk for the 
> > installation. DFLY makes his slices then in the
> > selected partition.
> >
> > I use grub here as a boot manager, tri-booting
> > Linux, GNU/Hurd and DFly 
> > without problems (that means, I didn't let the DFly
> > installation set up its 
> > own boot manager).
> >
> > Thomas
>
> I readed the fdisk's man page, but I not found the
> response. I want choose the size in MB (or in GB) with
> fdisk.
> Fdisk (in DragonFly) have this feature?

If I remember correctly you can not use the DragonFly fdisk to create 
the partition (or I just didn't know how to use it) but if you boot into 
Linux and use fdisk there it should work just as fine.

Erik Wikström
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