From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 10 12:25: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728F037B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C80343E52 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:25:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA22488; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:24:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2C8A07.1040506@owt.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:24:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Blair Wagner , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Multi-OS install of FreeBSD: HELP! References: <200207101811.g6AIB6026588@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jerry McAllister wrote: >>Blair Wagner wrote: >> >> >>>Hello guru's, >>> >>>Please help me install FreeBSD on my PC, co-resident with Win2k. >>> >>>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. >>> >>>... [Lots cut out] >>> >>>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. >>> > >>You are reading old docs. I only have one machine that has a drive >>smaller than 8.4GB, which is cylinder 1024 with LBA turned on. The >>rest are on 20-80GB drives and half of them are installed starting >>around 15-20GB in on the drive. >> >> > > YES. I wish someone who really knows about the insides of current > machines, BIOS, boot blocks, devices and even Microsloth stuff would > completely rewrite the documentation to this part of things. Even in > new editions of FreeBSD books I have been searching the information > still talks only about old methods and limits that just by accident I > have discovered to be no longer valid or meaningful (but I don't know > what the real limits and requirements are now). Nik from FreeBSD-docs asked the same thing but none of the writers volunteered. Historically, the problem disappeared around FreeBSD-4.1 and we have progressed a long ways since then. You may have a lot of people that understand 2 of 3 points and aren't comfortable writing something covering everything. For example, I chose to install FreeBSD on the boot HD because I didn't have to deal with /boot/boot0, which I found confusing. If you include a copy of /boot/boot1 on your c-drive, there isn't any problem adding it to the boot.ini used by ntldr. I typically never have an OS on the primary boot partition of a multi-boot system. On these multi-boot systems, that partition in windows terms is FAT-32 because you can write to it from FreeBSD and is used to pass data from FreeBSD to the other OSes. Kent > > So, please please, someone make my wish come true. (and also put > the notice of publishing where we can't miss it. If it is really > good information and understandably written, I would even spend some > of my own money on it) > > ////jerry > > >>>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? >>> >>[more chopped off] >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message