From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 22:16: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2870237B41A for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:16:00 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA24751; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:15:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7DCB1B.3060607@owt.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:15:55 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Landauer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - is it possible? References: <200202280512.g1S5C3001443@rushe.aero.org> 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 Chris Landauer wrote: > hihi, all - > > i am trying to put freebsd 4.5 on a large (80gb) disk, with a dual boot with > windows 2000 professional (on the other 80gb disk, though i'd really prefer it > to be on only a small part of that disk) > > i did all the right stuff with the CD (i've installed freebsd a few dozen > times before), and tried to write the MBR (master boot record) properly from > the freebsd install, but the machine always boots into windows - i wonder if > w2000pro squirrels away a copy of the MBR and restores it before booting > somehow, and even before shutting down - moreover, ALL of the disk partition > fiddling programs failed because w2000pro said that disk fiddling was not > allowed > > do any of the disk partition fiddling programs work on w2000pro (with a fat32 > file system, NOT ntfs)? can i preserve windows at all? or must i make windows > go away completely before my new machine will boot into freebsd? If you want to share files with W2K, you need a fat32 partition somewhere. You can read NTFS but not write to it. As far as booting them, all you have to do is copy /boot/boot1 to your "c" drive and add it to the boot.ini. Kent > > more later, > cal > > Dr. Christopher Landauer > Aerospace Integration Science Center > The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 > P.O.Box 92957 > Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA > cal@aero.org, +1 (310) 336-1361 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com 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