Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:44:26 -0500 From: "Brandon Young" <bkyoung@ku.edu> To: "'Michael Coward'" <mickal13@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Very Inportant Question Message-ID: <000601c1f211$c77bcdf0$0100a8c0@workstation4> In-Reply-To: <F187iWcZf7oWbtnxOyJ00001c93@hotmail.com>
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Yes, you can run Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.5 on the same machine, from the same hard disk. The trick is partitioning (obviously). I currently have a 15 GB hard disk divided into 2 equally sized primary partitions ... the first one is Windows XP, and the second one is for FreeBSD. I happen to use the GRUB bootloader, but that isn't required ... as someone else mentioned, they use the native FBSD bootloader. I just like GRUB. It's my personal feeling that the XP bootloader isn't worth the trouble. If XP takes up all your hard disk space, you may have some issues finding a good program for resizing the partition ... if you have it available, Partition Magic 7 is awesome. Brandon -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Michael Coward Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Very Inportant Question Hi I just downloaded FreeBsd Version 4.5 ISO. I curently have windoes XP on my computer and you know how xp can run multiple operating systems!! Well if I install FREEBSD on the same harddisk will there be ne conflicts?? Well please get back to me asap Regards Michael _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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