From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 9:41:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neonova.net (mail.socantel.net [137.118.128.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AAD37B417 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.101.80.254] (HELO cellpc) by neonova.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with SMTP id 57308206 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:41:25 -0500 Message-ID: <000801c166ea$be4d4540$0200a8c0@socantel.net> Reply-To: "Keven Swingle" From: "Keven Swingle" To: Subject: question on FreeBSD Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:44:53 -0500 Organization: Socantel Network MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C166C0.D51A2920" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C166C0.D51A2920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I wish to load and experiment with FreeBSD on my system, I have read = through the majority of your documentation and have not been able to = find an answer to the dual booting dilemma I am afraid I am going to be = faced with. The system with which I am planning on installing FreeBSD on = is currently running windows2000 advanced server, disks are configured = as basic disks, I have created an empty partition and left it = unformatted on which I can install the new OS. My question is what is = the best way to handle the install on this, Will NTLD be able to load = both of these OS's or would I be better off installing a third party ap = such as boot magic to handle the boot load process ? I really do not = want to have the FreeBSD's boot loader overwrite NTLD and end up having = to reinstall 2000 on this machine. Any help would be greatly = appreciated. Thanks in Advance. Keven swinglek@socantel.net ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C166C0.D51A2920 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I wish to load and experiment with = FreeBSD on my=20 system, I have read through the majority of your documentation and have = not been=20 able to find an answer to the dual booting dilemma I am afraid I am = going to be=20 faced with. The system with which I am planning on installing FreeBSD on = is=20 currently running windows2000 advanced server, disks are configured as = basic=20 disks, I have created an empty partition and left it unformatted on = which I can=20 install the new OS. My question is what is the best way to handle the = install on=20 this, Will NTLD be able to load both of these OS's or would I be better = off=20 installing a third party ap such as boot magic to handle the boot load = process ?=20 I really do not want to have the FreeBSD's boot loader overwrite NTLD = and end up=20 having to reinstall 2000 on this machine. Any help would be greatly=20 appreciated.
 
Thanks in Advance.
Keven
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