From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 10:58:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C6016A400 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 10:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D1013C46E for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 10:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HtLrU-0001rN-Pw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 12:57:04 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 12:57:04 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 12:57:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:53:47 +0200 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <2dab70a30705300317g487d7649hd5f56e13c8233758@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1307121EE2E4CD40C7B0006D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30705300317g487d7649hd5f56e13c8233758@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Dual 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: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:58:21 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1307121EE2E4CD40C7B0006D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Paul Halliday wrote: > I just installed 6.2 on a 90GB drive. During the installation I > created the usual partitions and left 50GB untouched. I then rebooted > ran partition magic to put a DOS FS on the remainder then ghosted XP > pro onto it. > Do I need to start over or can I fix this? It's usually much better to install Windows first, as it's fussier about = where it's installed and records that information all over itself.=20 FreeBSD is more adaptable so install it after Windows. In your setup,=20 even if you do get Windows to boot (which should be only a matter of=20 chain-loading the boot sector on the Windows partition; FreeBSD's boot0=20 should show allow you this), it will be very confused about where it's=20 "C:" drive is. --------------enig1307121EE2E4CD40C7B0006D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXVfCldnAQVacBcgRAtZnAJ4t1xAFvZWr2fAz3yOjrv2Ec4aAQQCbByF3 tcs1ZSvoHCiX0Y++cDtfgz8= =rOPF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1307121EE2E4CD40C7B0006D--