From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 15:52:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (luna.cdrom.com [204.216.28.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9900837BCE7 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 15:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F92D31F8; Thu, 18 May 2000 15:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:52:34 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Tana Daniel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Windows Message-ID: <20000518155234.A17694@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: <20000518224029.AAA18229@gambit.ayrix.net@[205.229.37.2]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3i In-Reply-To: <20000518224029.AAA18229@gambit.ayrix.net@[205.229.37.2]>; from charle@network-one.com on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:37:33PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 May 2000 at 17:37:33 -0500, Tana Daniel wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I was thinking about installing freebsd for my system. I understand > that somehow you're supposed to create a "partition"(?) if you want to > access windows.. Correct, FreeBSD needs to live on it's own parition. > However, is there a way to ALWAYS boot into windows when you turn > your computer on and then boot into freebsd os from that? In a word, no. > or do you always have to boot into freebsd? If you install the boot manager when you install FreeBSD, you'll be given a choice of what to boot into. I.e., ``F1: DOS'' ``F2: FreeBSD''. Choose the one you want to run at the time, and off you go. > The reason for this is because my family uses the same computer and > I'm the only one that will use freebsd. Dual-booting should solve that problem. - jim -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message