Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:32:11 -0400 From: "Blair Wagner" <blair.wagner@cci-triad.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Multi-OS install of FreeBSD: HELP! Message-ID: <3D2C618B.6A9B8E35@ccitriad.com>
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Hello guru's, Please help me install FreeBSD on my PC, co-resident with Win2k. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, but far from unfamiliar with unix systems and installations. I've successfully installed FreeBSD 4.5 on an intel desktop here in my office, as the sole OS on the machine. All is fine. I'm preparing to install FreeBSD v4.6 on my AMD 1.4Ghz Athlon at home. However, this machine currently has Windows 2000 Pro installed - using all of the 40GB EIDE hard disk space. I've read through the "handbook", and also the article "Installing and Using FreeBSD With Other Operating Systems" by Jay Richmond. In the perfect world, I'd like to shrink the Win2K partition to 20GB, and allocate the remaining 20GB to FreeBSD on my one and only EIDE hard disk drive. However, the documentation suggests I'm going to have trouble. I do NOT wish to change the BIOS setting for ">1024cyl" or "LBA" each time I boot. I don't know how to boot Win2K into DOS mode to use the FBSDBOOT.EXE. So, using the tools on the 4.6 dist: 1) can I put the FreeBSD "bootable" partition out 20GB, assuming the cylinder # of the beginning of the partition is >1024??? ...and use the BootEasy boot manager? 2) If not, can I install a 2nd EIDE hard disk, as the master on the 2nd EIDE controller, install BootEasy on the existing C: win2k drive, and boot either Win2K or FreeBSD without all strange contortions??? If so, how? 3) If setting up as described in 1) above can work using FBSDBOOT.EXE, how do I do that? 4) Does anyone have a better idea??? Suggestion? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Blair Wagner : Education is not always knowing the answer CCITRIAD : ..but rather knowing where to look for it! blair.wagner@ccitriad.com Senior Development Engineer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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