Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:41:10 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Blair Wagner <blair.wagner@cci-triad.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-OS install of FreeBSD: HELP! Message-ID: <3D2C71B6.8040809@owt.com> References: <3D2C618B.6A9B8E35@ccitriad.com>
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Blair Wagner wrote: > Hello guru's, > > Please help me install FreeBSD on my PC, co-resident with Win2k. > > I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, but far from unfamiliar with unix systems and > installations. I've successfully installed FreeBSD 4.5 on an intel > desktop here in my office, as the sole OS on the machine. All is fine. > > I'm preparing to install FreeBSD v4.6 on my AMD 1.4Ghz Athlon at home. > However, this machine currently has Windows 2000 Pro installed - using > all of the 40GB EIDE hard disk space. > > I've read through the "handbook", and also the article "Installing and > Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems" by Jay Richmond. > > In the perfect world, I'd like to shrink the Win2K partition to 20GB, > and allocate the remaining 20GB to FreeBSD on my one and only EIDE hard > disk drive. However, the documentation suggests I'm going to have > trouble. I do NOT wish to change the BIOS setting for ">1024cyl" or > "LBA" each time I boot. I don't know how to boot Win2K into DOS mode to > use the FBSDBOOT.EXE. You are reading old docs. I only have one machine that has a drive smaller than 8.4GB, which is cylinder 1024 with LBA turned on. The rest are on 20-80GB drives and half of them are installed starting around 15-20GB in on the drive. > > So, using the tools on the 4.6 dist: > > 1) can I put the FreeBSD "bootable" partition out 20GB, assuming the > cylinder # of the beginning of the partition is >1024??? ...and use the > BootEasy boot manager? FWIW, your machine will look like mine at that point except that I typically have 3 HDs on individual controllers for buildworld speed. I also use the NTLD to boot FreeBSD. FreeBSD / always goes on the 1st HD. Things are spread out after that. Kent > > 2) If not, can I install a 2nd EIDE hard disk, as the master on the 2nd > EIDE controller, install BootEasy on the existing C: win2k drive, and > boot either Win2K or FreeBSD without all strange contortions??? If so, > how? > > 3) If setting up as described in 1) above can work using FBSDBOOT.EXE, > how do I do that? > > 4) Does anyone have a better idea??? Suggestion? > > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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