In message <20010518225751.A6532@wasabisystems.com>, Luke Mewburn writes:
>On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:29:27AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> Quoting Luke Mewburn (17-May-01 13:33:22):
>> 
>> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:27:56AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> 
>> >> I have a harddisk (NTFS WinNT 4.0) where I wouldlike to install
>> >> NetBSD at the end. The entire disk is declared as "extended
>> >> partition". As long as I don't reduce the size of this extended
>> >> partition, I can't install NetBSD.
>> >> 
>> >> How can I archive this?
>> >> 
>> >> Is the data inside the extended partition (logical drives and
>> >> primary partition) lost?
>> 
>> > Commercial programs such as `Partition Magic' can perform this
>> > resize operation without data loss, as well as providing many other
>> > useful features (like move partitions, change partitions from
>> > extended -> primary, etc).
>> 
>> - Does Partition Magic work together with WinNT (which I have)?
>> - Does it allow to reduce the size of an extended WinNT partition?
>
>Depending on the version of Windows NT and Partition Magic; I believe
>the latest version of PM works with Windows 2000.

No doubt about that -- if it didn't, I wouldn't be typing this on a 
NetBSD system.  (I unpacked the laptop, ran partition magic to shrink 
win2k's portion of the disk, grabbed a cd-rom or two, and headed off on 
a trip.  I installed NetBSD 1.5 on the train to Boston in the space 
vacated for me by Partition Magic.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb