From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 8:55:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B9A37B403 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:55:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA28449; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:03:44 +0200 Message-ID: <3B697856.D52A53EC@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:57:10 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Almonds Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win2k & Free BSD How-To-I know been asked a 1000x References: <20010802152757.81984.qmail@web9603.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 The Almonds wrote: > > Well, > > I've seena ton of mail about WIN2k and FreeBSD adn > dual booting but I deleted the email. > > 1. Can you have WIN2k and FreeBSD and use FreeBSD > boot loader? Yes. > 2. Which OS do I install first? Depends. Make sure both OSes are bootable by your mainboards BIOS, i.e. check both OS partitions start within the first GB of your hard disk. > 3. Or, just how do you do it? - Booting off a FreeBSD CD, partition 256 M /, 1GB DOS, >1GB /usr, eventually break /tmp, /home, and/or /var into separate partitions. Install the system. - Booting of W2k, format the DOS partition and install W2k - From the FreeBSD CD, install and configure the OS-BS boot manager Alternatively, start with w2k and leave room for both the / partition and the rest of the BSD system. The crucial point is to have both Winblows C partition and FreeBSDs / partition within the bootable area of your BIOS. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message