From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 27 2:55: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A038F37B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:55:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0039.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.39] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Umxh-0007Ad-00; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:55:01 -0800 Message-ID: <3C53DC80.29C2DCAA@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 02:54:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chip Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <200201260934538.SM01304@there> <3C53470C.8CEF3040@mindspring.com> <20020127000039.SM01304@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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