From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 16:47:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E09106566C for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:47:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pukruppa@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f214.google.com (mail-bw0-f214.google.com [209.85.218.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC66C8FC1F for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so3437100bwz.13 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:47:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2HjksS2u8CoAKg77wr9jT92X3t5XXh+abewdrODLUeQ=; b=WITr+IEsUTZwvMPFVTsjHjtUL6zuvxZe7Ixn7puIlHWTPIvE3K0GW9V2BPMKLc7UE5 KKvPPBSki/RQs3QbvekUq7XaqgEY3BUkEUCIukGz66ikD38sSd1qNEz7butl9w9IoI/r 58D1HHMMwjV+N75A7Wpw0IXfq7t/xCVupQtLU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xFcVgC2bW3Z55FSRYrN3W2qyMNvLx8yt1QbBqs1b8XOrJODSRp7z0cNTIfWtNuudXq sD5TRaWxEOdTKrje8kMlz12yy6afXTrsJbaa1r2bqQAaLFR/+Yr6Aett8ZOhGj1Anbqg xOyv3ZB43bViXycmOe38GFjAerhSw9DIlmUCI= Received: by 10.204.144.153 with SMTP id z25mr3686054bku.198.1271609253441; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pukruppa.net (pd95cabe3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.92.171.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2735959bwz.1.2010.04.18.09.47.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BCB383C.5030208@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:50:04 +0200 From: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; de-DE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Biquez References: <3354451880-1661092092@intranet.com.mx> In-Reply-To: <3354451880-1661092092@intranet.com.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question. Multi Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:47:35 -0000 Am 18.04.2010 18:10, schrieb Jorge Biquez: > Hello all. > I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives > and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments > based on experience. > > I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I > mentuioned in other post I installed FreeBSD 7.3 under a virtual > machine using vmware. It works fine but seems it is too much for the > machine since when I am running it the machine is very slow. I have > that FB installation running without graphical interface since that's > why I need then. > > Now I would like to have a graphical interface running to learn to use > eclipse and continue with my PHP/Mysql development learning. I know > that if I continue under VMware the windows machine will be even more > slow so I decided that I would have this machine running with a multi > boot schema and choose when to boot under FreeBSd, Windows and later > with Linux (looking for a job and in some companies asked me to have > the basics of any distribution). The most important is that I need to > be able to continue having that actual windows partition without > loosing anything or changing anything. > > What do you think, based on experince, is the safest way to accomplish > this? Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems, leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD (and Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot Windows but Windows will not boot any FreeBSD or Linux. Good Luck Uli. > Thanks in advance > > Jorge Biquez > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >