From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 2:34:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from surreal.nl (surreal.nl [212.204.236.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D752A37B400 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 02:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vscan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surreal.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442E9434; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:34:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by surreal.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A39D42C; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:34:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surreal.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773A72A8; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:34:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:34:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Walter Hop To: Michael Coward Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Inportant Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020502113034.E42691-100000@surreal.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by surreal.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mickal13@hotmail.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to Michael Coward , 02/05/02] > Hi I just downloaded FreeBsd Version 4.5 ISO. I curently have windoes XP on > my computer and you know how xp can run multiple operating systems!! Well if > I install FREEBSD on the same harddisk will there be ne conflicts?? If you create the FreeBSD partitions in free space, your existing partitions will be left alone. Basically you have two options: 1) keep the Windows boot loader and use c:\boot.ini to boot FreeBSD; 2) install the FreeBSD boot manager in the MBR which will give you the option of booting into Windows or FreeBSD. I have used option 2 as it is very simple to setup, just after fdisk'ing in the FreeBSD sysinstall tool, when asked, answer 'Install the FreeBSD boot manager'. I know it sounds a little tricky but it has never screwed up my previous install. (Now dual booting Windows 2000 and FreeBSD using the FreeBSD boot loader) -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24452020 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message