From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 13: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE3237B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 13:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A8EC5900266; Wed, 23 May 2001 13:09:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0C18EC.A4B2E73@urx.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:09:16 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: jasonla@pobox.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > > At Wed, 23 May 2001 it looks like Jason La composed: > > JL-->I have a question about triple booting with win98, win2k, > JL-->and freebsd. > JL--> > > I've had success with using the following, the only difference may > be that I already had windows and Linux installed, the key for me > was having ONLY "primary" partitions and in my case the 4th one > was for FreeBSD and the first cylinder of the (4th > primary) FreeBSD partition was well above the 1024th > cylinder. That's because I'm using Linux's LILO as the bootloader. One of the advantages of W2K on the MS side is that it allows 4 primary partitions and one of those can be an extended. How you arrange them is up to you. When I use both, and I have three quad boot systems. I try to leave my "C" drive as Fat32 because I can write to it from FreeBSD. W2K understands FAT16/32, and NTFS. You can read NTFS from FreeBSD but they caution writing to it. I have two new systems that have 3x30GB drives on them. They have a couple of small partition for Windows ME but the rest of the drives are shared equally with W2K and FreeBSD. The current versions don't care about the 1024 cylinder rule. I set one pair up as a raid-0 and FreeBSD didn't like sharing that drive with Windows. The speed wasn't there and I dropped back to two 30GB drives on separate controllers. The two new systems will fall back to a dual boot when XP is released. The only question there is Personal or Professional. I have used this arrangement for several years without any problems and can see no need for plugable modules or switches. I thought that boarders on being masochistic. Kent > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 -o) > San Francisco CA 94121 /\ > "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v > http://forwardslashunix.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message