From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 16:16: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kitkat.hotpop.com (kitkat.hotpop.com [204.57.55.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F4137B419 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotpop.com (unknown [204.57.55.31]) by kitkat.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D3B43090D for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AFI (36.eagle.speede.com [64.39.177.36]) by zagnut.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AFDD50021; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <000e01c194b4$de4ff250$2300a8c0@AFI> From: "Dillion Klein" To: "Jud" , References: <3C3429EA@operamail.com> Subject: Re: Quad Boot, Multiple Partitions, Two Drives Possible? Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:15:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- 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 Thanks Jud! Anyone else using some of the core hardware components that I am planning on? If so, please post any tips or troubles that you had. Epox 8KHA+ w/ 10/11 BIOS X2 IBM 40GB 60GXP HD's Asus V7100 32MB GeForce2MX 400 512MB Crucial DDR Mem Netgear FA310TX NIC LG 16x10x40 CD-R Pioneer 10X DVD Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound card I plan to run a variation of X-windows with my install. Thanks, -Dillion ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jud" To: "Dillion Klein" ; Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: RE: Quad Boot, Multiple Partitions, Two Drives Possible? > >===== Original Message From "Dillion Klein" ===== > [snip] > >Right now, I have 8 partitions on Drive 0, a mix of NTFS and FAT32, with a > >tri-boot of Win98SE, Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, without any problems. > > > >Drive 1 has two partitions right now (just set it up), starting with a 10GB > >and > >20GB FAT32. would like to install FeeBSD on my second hard drive, to keep > >it away from my Windows world and I ould still like to be able to use some > >sort > >of boot manager/OS selecter. > > > >I have since this GRUB port fly by on the list, but do I need to install the > >OS first > >and sort of install Grub after so it recognizes that I have multiple OSes? > [snip] > > You have the idea - install FreeBSD first, install the GRUB port, then set it > up as your boot manager. Read the documentation carefully and have the > commands you'll issue to grub and your menu.lst configuration file (that's an > "L," not a "one," after the period) prepared and written/printed ahead of > time. Before anything, though, back up the data you don't want to lose to > some storage medium that won't be affected by this operation. GRUB isn't > difficult, but with that many partitions/OSs, you naturally want to take care > when playing with your MBR(s). > > Jud > > P.S. While I can't certify that all your hardware will work with FreeBSD, I > have some similar stuff (DVD, memory, graphics card, earlier generation IBM > HDs), and it all works. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message