From: Chris Landauer <cal@rushe.aero.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org, kbstew99@hotmail.com Subject: Re: dual boot with 4.5 and windows 2000 pro - how? Message-ID: <200202280736.g1S7aeL07180@rushe.aero.org>
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hihi, all - i asked how to set up a w2k machine with dual boot for freebsd 4.5, and i got an answer > 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. (1) all partitions on the windows side are already fat32, not ntfs (this is not what the problem is) (2) i have not found a system to boot on the machine that CAN copy anything to the MBr (master boot record) or from /boot/boot1 under w2k it says ``don't do that - it didn't work'' under freebsd boot disks it says it has done it, and it has not this is exactly the problem - how to tell w2k to change the MBR, or what programs can do the appropriate change externally the worst case is to take the hard drives out of the current box, mount them physically in some other freebsd system on some other box, and write on them from there - i know that that would work, but i would prefer to avoid that if possible ``and add it to the boot.ini.'' - i do not know what this clause means, neither the ``it'' that is referenced nor what it is that needs to be added to file ``boot.ini'' (which i know is a windows file of some sort) more soon, 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 e-mail: cal@aero.org, Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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