From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 03:30:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7D916A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:30:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FE843FD7 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 03:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: TNMcSdzEj/s5NH0V2EMIHg 1068636652 Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.79.229.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.229]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B5E3FBD1F; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 06:30:50 -0500 (EST) To: lists@rhavenn.net, "Eric Greene" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <200311111544.50582.lists@rhavenn.net> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 06:30:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200311111544.50582.lists@rhavenn.net> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.30 (Win32, build 3327) Subject: Re: Windows XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:30:57 -0000 On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:44:50 -0600, Henrik Hudson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:34, > "Eric Greene" sent a missive stating: > >> Hello. I would like to learn to use FreeBSD. I would also like to have >> the ability to choose between either Win XP Pro and FreeBSD upon >> starting >> up my system. I do have 2 40GB hard drives, plus Partition Magic if I >> need. My plan at the moment is to simply have Win XP Pro on one hdd, >> and >> FBSD on the other. >> >> Ok what I would like to know is this: should I install FreeBSD first? >> Or >> Win XP first? I am thinking I better not install FreeBSD first because >> I >> doubt that WinXP's setup would recognize FreeBSD as a 2nd. O.S. on my >> system when installing (thereby not providing the ability to choose an >> O.S. >> on startup). >> >> Any suggestions? My hardware should all be compatible to use FreeBSD. > > Yeah, install XP first and then stick BSD on there. The boot manager > from BSD, > although not very elegant, will let you choose XP or BSD on startup. You > can > setup XP's to boot another OS as well, but it's more difficult. > > One OS per drive should work fine as well. Have fun. One OS per drive is fine. You can boot both OSs with FreeBSD's boot loader (if you do this, install the FreeBSD bootloader on *both* drives); you can boot both with XP's boot loader (it's one of the FAQs at FreeBSD's web site, though admittedly the language is not entirely clear to me regarding how to use XP's bootloader where FBSD and XP are on different drives); you can use Grub from the FreeBSD ports collection, a bit more involved but provides good learning experience about bootloaders; or you can go the easy, automagic route with the free GAG bootloader . Jud