From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 05:15:16 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 EFF1016A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:15:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from charentes.fr.clara.net (charentes.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D19743FCB for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:15:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ogautherot@freesurf.fr) Received: from mail.freesurf.fr (mail.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.50]) by charentes.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D1B5A591; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:15:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.freesurf.fr (Postfix, from userid 5000) id 6DA55E4A01; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:15:00 +0100 (CET) References: <002701c3af33$d7ccec30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> In-Reply-To: From: ogautherot@freesurf.fr To: Jud Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:14:59 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: ogautherot@freesurf.fr Message-Id: <20031120131500.6DA55E4A01@mail.freesurf.fr> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:15:17 -0000 As far as I am concerned, I tend to have 1 partition for the system and a separate one for user data - this way, you don't wipe everything out if your system crashes. This saved my life a couple of times. What do you need the 10GB FAT32 partition for? (I suspect the same purpose but with respect to Windows...?!?) Jud écrit: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:59:29 +0800, wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I read somewhere before that there were partition or boot problems after > > installing 5.1 beside winXP. Has anyone been able to do this > > successfully? Is there something not obvious that I need to set/tweak > > while during sysinstall? This partition has seen several versions of > > Mandrake and Redhat (Fedora is a flap, btw, IMO), and they all do it > > automatically as if assuming that users DO install their OS beside some > > Windows. But I have grown tired of the linux fad/hype and just wanna try > > my favorite server OS on it to see how it does too on the desktop. But > > at the same time, I need my XP very much. > > > > My 40G hardisk is currently partitioned like this..: 512MB Windows swap > > | 512MB Linux/Unix swap | 20G NTFS | 10G FAT32 | Rest = Linux/Unix > > > > Thanks in advance =) > > > > chael > > Everything should work just fine. Read the FAQ at the FreeBSD web site re > dual booting with Win as well as extensive prior discussions in this list > with detailed advice. (You can search for the latter at http://freebsd.rambler.ru/>.) > > Jud > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"