Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:01:40 -0500 From: Jud <jud@operamail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, Roy Oestensen <royoest@alfanett.no> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD.org for the first time Message-ID: <3WOIGE6ZVQLJGWUZTMJ1YWLIQK425Z.3c2f5684@sparky> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011230160704.00b3cef0@pop.alfanett.no>
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12/30/2001 10:18:24 AM, Roy Oestensen <royoest@alfanett.no> wrote: >Greetings, [snip] >I have read through the installation documentation online, but still have a >few concerns, as I am quite new to FreeBSD. I have only tried Windows and >Linux. I understand that FreeBSD should be installed on a primary >partition. Now DOS is not fond of having more than one active primary >partition, so I am a little concerned how to go around the installation so >as not to upset the rest of my setup. [snip] >As I have never used FreeBSD, but would like to try it out, I'd like to use >the free space without touching the rest of the setup. Currently I have set >it up so that Win2k's boot loader is used to load the different OS's (Win2k >on hda5, Win98 on hdc1, and Linux on hdc5 if I remember the Linux partition >numbering scheme correctly. I had plans of having FreeBSD on hda6, but I >will perhaps have to have it on hda2 instead? (If so, I'd make sure to edit >boot.ini so that I still can load Win2k!) > >Any help would be appreciated, as I would prefer not to do anything wrong here. > >Roy I'm extremely pleased with GRUB - http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ - though I've only been using it a week or two. It's in the FreeBSD ports collection (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/sysutils.html), and of course it's available for Linux as well. I found that it was quick and easy to configure after first taking time out to thoroughly read the documentation. I dual-boot W2K and FreeBSD on my first disk. Each is on its own primary partition. My second, smaller, disk is a Fat32 primary partition to facilitate reading/writing between W2K and FreeBSD. FreeBSD's bootloader (which you can configure easily at install) worked just fine with this setup and would very likely work for yours, but GRUB has some additional capabilities I found attractive. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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