From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 10:53:01 2003 Return-Path: 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 B2CCD37B404 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-64-217.maa.sify.net [210.214.64.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0A543FB1 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shantanoo@ieee.org) Received: by dhumketu.homeunix.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2D7A342F9; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:38:56 +0530 (IST) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:38:55 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030413180855.GA1745@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Eh? Whats that? X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE i386 Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:53:01 -0000 +++ Lucas Holt [freebsd] [10-04-03 22:24 -0400]: | Thanks for all your comments. I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with | the boot manager. Its working great! also you can try http://www.xosl.org Regards, Shantanu | | On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: | | >* Lucas Holt (luke@foolishgames.com) wrote: | >==> What is the best approach to dual booting XP Home and FreeBSD? | >==> Specifically I want to know what to do about the boot manager? I | >don't | >==> want to damage Windows XP in the process. | >==> | >==> My system currently has Windows XP Home edition on a 30 gig | >partition | >==> and another 9 gigs or so free at the end. | >==> | >==> I have read some newsgroups, but some people are saying that its | >not a | >==> good idea to use the nt boot loader. | >==> | >==> Lucas Holt | >==> Luke@FoolishGames.com | > | >Hi Luke | > | >I would go ahead and [back up your data and] install FreeBSD. I'm | >assuming you want to stick it on the 9GB free space? No problem, | >just install the FreeBSD boot loader when sysinstall asks you--it'll | >boot 'em both, although you may get a display something like: | > | >F1 FreeBSD | >F2 ??? | > | >F2 in this case will be WinXP. | > | >HTH, | > | >-- | >Joshua | > | > | | Lucas Holt | Luke@FoolishGames.com | ________________________________________________________ | FoolishGames.com | JustJournal.com | | "The next generation of interesting software will be made on a | Macintosh, not an IBM PC." | | -- Bill Gates (unconfirmed quote) | | | ------------------------------ -- It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right. PGP keyID : 137AFD9E PGP keyID fingerprint : C7DA 3350 1DEA F371 37DC D92A F0D4 C2ED 137A FD9E