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From: Robin Schoonover <robin.schoonover@gmail.com>
To: Didier Caamano <nemesisdivina@gennux.ca>
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Subject: Re: Dual booting with Windows XP
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:40:28 -0700 Didier Caamano
<nemesisdivina@gennux.ca> wrote:
> Hello everyone:
> 
> This might sound rather foolish, but I need some assistance on how to 
> dual boot FBSD 5.3 with WinXP.
>

It is rather foolish, but like I should talk...I set it up just a few
weeks ago.

First off, I left the FreeBSD boot manager out of the picture. I used
the bootpart utility (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) to
automagically get my boot.ini set up correctly for the windows boot
loader so that FreeBSD is now listed as an option.

Then I set FreeBSD to be the default and the countdown to 11 seconds
from the original 30. :)

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