Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:54:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <3C53DC80.29C2DCAA@mindspring.com> References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <200201260934538.SM01304@there> <3C53470C.8CEF3040@mindspring.com> <20020127000039.SM01304@there>
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chip wrote: > > The problem is with the repartitioning of the disk for > > the installation. The VMWare approach has this same > > problem, with getting to the point where you can even > > contemplate the install. > > I'm not sure what you mean in the last sentence. When I set up vmware on the > linux box to run win2k I didn't have to do anything with any partition, just > had to give it some disk space, any contiguous disk space. I haven't tried it > yet on my fbsd boxes at home because they don't have enough computing power > to handle it, but my guess is it will be the same procedure. We were talking about FreeBSD in the case of a Windows XP box with XP preinstalled, and perhaps some user data on the XP FS that makes system recovery CDROMs a bad idea in most cases, until someone works out the writing NTFS problem sufficiently from DR-DOS or other bootable recovery OSs that can boot from a CDROM. While you're technically right, since the 3.0 version can support Windows XP as a host OS, VMWare on Windows XP to run FreeBSD costs you $300. So it's _a_ solution, but it's certainly not the _cheapest_ one, and since we are talking about someone who doesn't want to drop $300 on the cheapest el-cheapo machine at Fry's (if they even have a Fry's or Fry's-alike in their area at all)... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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