From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 22:04:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD01106566B for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:04:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD468FC0C for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 9593257; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:04:55 -0400 Received: from [192.168.43.232] (HELO Jon-Radels-MacBook-Pro.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 9593256 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:04:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BCB81FE.4010004@radel.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:04:46 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3354451880-1661092092@intranet.com.mx> <4BCB383C.5030208@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCB383C.5030208@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer Subject: Re: Question. Multi Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:04:56 -0000 On 4/18/10 12:50 PM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: > Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems, > leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD (and > Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot Windows but > Windows will not boot any FreeBSD or Linux. I would agree that is the safest way to proceed, although the repartitioning of the hard disk as outlined by somebody else would certainly work. However, even here I would urge you to have a complete backup that you have verified is usable before you start. Makes that sinking feeling in your stomach when you realize you've just partitioned the wrong drive much less ugly. :-) --Jon Radel