From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 04:14:43 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 550451065672 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:14:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbiquez@icsmx.com) Received: from intranet.com.mx (intranet.com.mx [200.33.246.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEA08FC08 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from PC.icsmx.com (189.191.153.23) by icsmx.com with ESMTP (EIMS X 3.3.9) for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:15:10 -0500 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:14:50 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jorge Biquez In-Reply-To: <4BCB81FE.4010004@radel.com> References: <3354451880-1661092092@intranet.com.mx> <4BCB383C.5030208@googlemail.com> <4BCB81FE.4010004@radel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-ID: <3354495310-1661092161@intranet.com.mx> 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: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:14:43 -0000 At 05:04 p.m. 18/04/2010, you wrote: >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 >_______________________________________________ Hello all. Thanks for your comments. The disk I have, actually has around 90GB of free space (more I guess). I will do repartition with Norton and will leave 2 partitions of 40GB for each extra OS. I then will install FB on the first one to have the boot manager there and later Linux on the other partition. I guess that could work. I hope so. Thanks for your time. JB