From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 9:11:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 460D837B69B for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15763 invoked by uid 100); 22 Jan 2001 17:11:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14956.27069.604331.481480@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:11:25 -0600 (CST) To: "Julien Pham" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a computer with a windows OS installed In-Reply-To: <2470780@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julien Pham types: > So on ly computer I have windows installed on my 4Gb drive, and I want to > install FreeBSD on my empty 8Gb drive. Of course after FreeBSD installation > I want to be able to boot either FreeBSD or windows. > > Do I have something to know on installation on how to do this ? Yes. You need to know that you should install BootEasy (the FreeBSD boot manager) on the disk with Windows install on it, and either BootEasy or a standard boot manager on the second disk. This way you get a keyboard menu for DOS or disk2, and going to disk2 either boots FreeBSD or gets a similar menu for FreeBSD or disk1. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message