From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 7: 7:21 2002 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 ED2A837B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:07:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4734F43E9E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gALF7BD24099; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:07:11 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200211211507.gALF7BD24099@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6 To: vriviere@snv.jussieu.fr (Visotheary Riviere-Ung) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:07:11 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021121105946.00a38100@mail.snv.jussieu.fr> from "Visotheary Riviere-Ung" at Nov 21, 2002 11:02:47 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > Hi, > > I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and > FreeBSD. How can I do it? > My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? > Thanks for your help Well, if you installed the FreeBSD over the top of the W2K slice, then it is gone. You will have to reinstall it. To do a dual boot, you need at least two primary slices - one for the W2k and one for FreeBSD. Then, you want to have the Microsloth stuff installed first - if you try to install it second, it will almost certainly ignore what you have already installed and clobber it. So, reinstall W2K if it has been wiped. Now, you take the system with W2k installed and use a utility to shrink the W2k slice (MS stuff calls them partitions) and make room for a FreeBSD slice. Then use the utility or the FreeBSD install utility (/stand/sysinstall which is what is running when you install from FreeBSD CD or install floppies) or use fdisk(8) to turn that freed up space in to a slice and install FreeBSD on it. The utility for shrinking W2K and other slice/partition management that I am familier with is Partition Magic. It works and isn't too expensive. There are others, some even cheaper. There are also freeware utilities but the free ones I have seen can't handle NTFS type files systems and that is probably what your W2k is using. Partition Magic has pretty good instructions with it, but it uses all MS terminology, so slices become partitions and it doesn't know about UNIX partitions. Now, if you did properly create a slice for FreeBSD and installed FreeBSD in it and didn't wipe out the W2K, then maybe you only messed up the slice table. You might be able to use either Partition Magic or one of the other utilities that manage disk slices/partitions to remake the slice table without reinstalling anything. Good luck, ////jerry > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Visotheary RIVIERE-UNG > CNRS UMR 7625 > Fonctionnements et Evolution > des Systèmes écologiques > (Bâtiment A, 7ème étage) > 7 Quai Saint-Bernard > 75252 Paris Cedex 05 > Tel: 01 44 27 25 70 > Email: visotheary.riviere@snv.jussieu.fr > ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message