From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 21:10:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA2237B62D for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djab@enteract.com) Received: from olivia (dschrock.cpe.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.53.93] (may be forged)) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA95374; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:10:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djab@enteract.com) Message-ID: <002701bfdb36$f8432490$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org> Reply-To: "Daniel Schrock" From: "Daniel Schrock" To: "donald pwee" Cc: "freebsd-questions" References: <8in9j0$1h73$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> Subject: Re: dual-booting win2000 & freebsd Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:12:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "donald pwee" Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.questions Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:21 AM Subject: dual-booting win2000 & freebsd > hi, > > i've been trying to dual boot win2000 with freebsd. > i've 2 hdd & am wondering whether the following > will work out. > > first disk 20G win2000 > 2nd disk 20G freebsd > > must i still ensure that the root slice of freebsd > resides within the first 1024th cylinder? i'm getting > > tired bc i can only get only either 1 of them up at > any one time. > > thanks, > donald I'm currently running a similar setup, though drive sizes differ: 10 GB Win2k 8.4GB FreeBSD-4.0_Release The first time i tried this, under FreeBSD 3.3, I forgot to make the root partitions on both drives active. Make them both active, then choose the Booteasy Bootmgr for both drives and you will be good to go. Upon next reboot, you will be given a choice of drives to choose from....very easy to do, yet very easy to forget about in the excitement of installing FreeBSD. :-) Hope it works out for you. daniel schrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message