From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 12:57: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B7037B422 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp2.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.17]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28071; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 22:57:40 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8ACrEQ00591; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:53:14 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:53:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Maria Isabel Reyes Ramirez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000910155314.D274@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from reyesr@ixtchel.cs.buap.mx on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:56:15PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:56:15PM +0000, Maria Isabel Reyes Ramirez wrote: > Hello! > > I love FreeBSD, I have a question: > can I install FreeBSD with Windows 2000 in de same machine? Yes, of course. But you should note here that Win2K is in the nasty habbit of overwriting your MBR when they are installed, which has the interesting side-effect of wiping away the FreeBSD boot loader if you have installed FreeBSD first. What I usually do is install Win2K first, in a disk that has 3 partitions, with the first partition being a 100 Mb BSD slice, the next being one Win2k partition, and the rest of the disk in another BSD slice. After Win2k is installed in the second partition, I install BSD and let it write it's own boot0 block in my MBR. I had no problems with this setup with FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE -> 4.1-STABLE, and Windows versions ranging from Win95 to Win2k. - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message