Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:08:00 -0500 From: Orville <technews@giallarhorn.org> To: "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NTFS w/ FreeBSD dual boot Message-ID: <20020324124525.AD87.TECHNEWS@giallarhorn.org> In-Reply-To: <GJEMJMGHBEKNGLGPHJDNEEPACIAA.dillionklein@hotpop.com> References: <GJEMJMGHBEKNGLGPHJDNEEPACIAA.dillionklein@hotpop.com>
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:48:56 -0500 "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > > I am wondering what the best procedure is to dual boot FreeBSD 4.4R > and Windows 2000. > > If I were to do the following: > > -Starting with an empty 40GB drive, install Win2K first (must be NTFS) > on a primary partition (4GB C:). > > -Create an extended partition of 5GB for my NTFS data, which would > have one logical drive D: of the 5GB's > > -Install FreeBSD and setup 6GB's for it. How can I be sure that I > do not overwrite any data on the NTFS partitions? > > Any other tips? > > Thanks for the help! > i have the same setup as you are proposing however have a fat32 partition for data. For some reason (not sure where i read/heard it) i think the ntfs driver is not recommended for r/w. Anyway to make sure you don't overwrite the ntfs partitions on the install should not be a problem since the fbsd fdisk will identify/display all the partitions on the drive. When you install fbsd just allocate the 6 gigs from the unused space. during the fbsd install, sysinstall will prompt you as to whether you want to overwrite the mbr, i would choose yes and have bsd bootlloader take over. You will need to mount the ntfs partitions yourself or add them to /etc/fstab manually since sysinstall won't. So it would be beneficial to write down the mount points for the ntfs partitions when you encounter them in the "Disk Partitions" phase of sysinstall. btw: what are you planning to do with the other 25gigs. I am not sure how nt will identify the bsd partitions from Disk Administrator so be carefull to not delete in when doing disk admin stuff from the nt side To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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