From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 13:25:46 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 A2DB937B401; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365EF43E3B; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:25:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g8RKPeu22992; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:25:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200209272025.g8RKPeu22992@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Question on Multi OSes To: SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:25:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, haarberg@junglemate.com (Ryan Haarberg), questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <333246938.20020927150941@myrealbox.com> from "SweeTLeaF" at Sep 27, 2002 03:09:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] 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? I have read that this depends on the quality of your BIOS. Earlier ones had a similar limit which was based on the size of the space allotted to counting the cylinders and was generally 1024 cylinders. I understand that most recent BIOSes have been improved to beat this problem. My only dual boot so far is on a machine with only an 8 GB disk (the one I am typing on at the moment) and given that size I didn't need to try pushing any boundaries. I am about to do another, though in a week or so and it has a bigger disk, so... Recommendation: Try it and see how it works. Being able to boot from a second disk I think depends on the quality of the MBR that you install. Some seem to manage that OK. I haven't tried it yet. ////jerry > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message