From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 13 2:41:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.global.net.uk (sand2.global.net.uk [194.126.80.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB26D14EE1 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 02:41:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p5es10a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.218.95] helo=marder-1.) by sand2.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 10t6lJ-00016w-00; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:41:09 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id KAA00366; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:38:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:38:48 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Anne-Sophie Hombert Cc: "FreeBSD (Questions)" Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Win NT Message-ID: <19990613103848.C255@marder-1> References: <000101beb572$c2d91b60$01010101@ash> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <000101beb572$c2d91b60$01010101@ash>; from Anne-Sophie Hombert on Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 10:00:11AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 10:00:11AM +0200, Anne-Sophie Hombert wrote: > A real newbie question ... > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.8. Since I have also NT running on the system, > I did not to install booteasy nor modify the MBR. For the moment I boot > FreeBSD from the install disk, using "wd(1,a) kernel" at the boot prompt. > > The system configuration is as follows (HP vectra, PII 450 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM): > - primary HDD (10Gb) entirely dedicated to NT, on the first controller as > master > - secondary HDD with 2 partitions (4Gb), first controller, slave: a very > small DOS partition(7 Mb), just enough to allow HP power management utility > to recognize the drive and put it to sleep when it's not used and the rest > (so about 4Gb) dedicated to FreeBSD. > > I have tried to apply the method in the FAQ to boot via NT loader, but it > does not work. > That's because the NT boot mangler can only boot an OS that resides on the first HD (it is mentioned in the FAQ). > Now the question : do I have any other options than the boot floppy to load > FreeBSD on a system with Win NT installed ? > If you've got (or can get) Partiton Magic or similar what you can do is to shrink the NT partition to create enough space (~32MB + swap) to install / and swap on the first HD and leave everthing else (/usr /var /home etc.) on the second disk. > Thanks for your help, > > Anne > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message