From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 13: 9:25 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 DCD7137B401; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:09:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693F243E65; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:09:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com) Received: from traveling-man SweeTLeaF@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [12.239.9.75] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.12 $ on Novell NetWare; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:09:24 -0600 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:09:41 -0500 From: SweeTLeaF X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: SweeTLeaF Organization: Hydroponic Dreams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <333246938.20020927150941@myrealbox.com> To: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ryan Haarberg" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question on Multi OSes In-Reply-To: <332301c2665f$71627780$0e6417ac@norada.com> References: <332301c2665f$71627780$0e6417ac@norada.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Hello Ryan, Friday, September 27, 2002, 2:52:43 PM, you wrote: RH> Dear Representative, RH> I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in mind on partitioning? I plan on RH> formating three partitions as FAT 32. The first one 24 Gb with Win XP (for work), then a 2 Gb for learning FreeBSD and then a 2 Gb for an old favorite BeOS. The only thing I am wondering is if RH> this layout will work? it seems that I had read somewhere that FreeBSD should be within the first 4 Gb of the first hard drive (but I can not seem to find this in the FAQ, is this true. Do you RH> have any reccommednations? RH> Sincerly, RH> Ryan Haarberg RH> Personalized email, Group Calendar, Shared Contacts, Files and more! RH> http://www.norada.com/save RH> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org RH> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I have a 40gig hd and installed XP and FreeBSD on it. XP was first and took the 1st 20gig and then Freebsd was installed and took the last 20. I did not mark and bootable partitions, i just installed the freebsd boot mbr to the hd and it boots xp and itself just fine. What i would like to find out is how to have xp on its own drive and freebsd on its own drive and be able to boot either such as i do now. I saw a device that connected to each drive and jumps over the drive to make it primary, sec.etc... to boot the drive you wanted but i don't have the money for it now so i need to find out how to achieve this with the freebsd boot manager. -- Best regards, SweeTLeaF mailto:SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message