From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 7:40:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC2937BD03 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 07:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000519144016.CJXH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 May 2000 07:40:16 -0700 Content-Length: 1130 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000518224029.AAA18229%gambit.ayrix.net@[205.229.37.2]> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: (Tana Daniel) Subject: RE: Booting from Windows Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <20000519144016.CJXH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-May-00 Tana Daniel wrote: > > Hello, > I was thinking about installing freebsd for my system. I understand that somehow you're supposed to > create a "partition"(?) if you want to access windows.. > > However, is there a way to ALWAYS boot into windows when you turn your computer on and then boot into > freebsd os from that? or do you always have to boot into freebsd? > The reason for this is because my family uses the same computer and I'm the only one that will use > freebsd. > Thanks and please respond. > -Cory Daniel You either boot into FreeBSD or Windows when you boot the machine. You can configure your boot manager to default to booting Windows and to only boot FreeBSD if you tell it to. You will still have to reboot the machine to switch back and forth, however. You want to install Windows first and FreeBSD second if you take this approach, however. I belive there is a tutorial on www.FreeBSD.org for this. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message