From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 18:04:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4C616A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E627243D49 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-newbies@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D40nv-0001dY-S0 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:00:07 +0100 Received: from pool-22-147.adsl.dn.farlep.net ([213.130.22.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:00:07 +0100 Received: from arcade by pool-22-147.adsl.dn.farlep.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:00:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Volodymyr Kostyrko Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:18:41 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <421BB6F6.2080704@savaka.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-22-147.adsl.dn.farlep.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050111 X-Accept-Language: uk, ru, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <421BB6F6.2080704@savaka.com> Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-newbies@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: winxp and freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:04:04 -0000 Eric wrote: > I want to configure my pc to dual boot winxp and freebsd. Should I > install winxp first? Or freebsd first. > > Thanks for any advice. You can install WinXP first or last, it doesn't matter. IT just takes some handwork to return to FreeBSD from Windows. First on Windows you mast mark the FreeBSD partition active. There is a tool named diskpart which can help you. Besides his dumb command interface. >diskpart #sel disk 0 (disk numbering starts from 0) #sel part 1 (partition numbering starts from 1) #active #exit You just need to remember your FreeBSD partition number. Next reboot your computer. FreeBSD should start without the BootManager prompt. In FreeBSD you can restore normal BootMananger with `boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0` command. -- [WBR], Arcade. [SAT Astronomy/Think to survive!]