From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 5: 6:43 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 42B4837B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:06:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E576543E4A for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikemcg@ucla.edu) Received: from pool0005.cvx36-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.18.5] helo=NEELIX) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18NuxF-0007hu-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:06:41 -0800 Message-ID: <003001c2a503$fc39b340$1a00a8c0@HOME> Reply-To: "Mike McGranahan" From: "Mike McGranahan" To: Subject: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:06:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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, I would like to know what is the best way to dual boot FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP? I found this information ( http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7963936&list=151 ) regarding how to use the Windows XP loader, and this information on GRUB ( http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/Booting.html#Booting ) though there is no mention of Windows XP. I have two hard drives in my system, a 20GB which currently has Windows XP, and a 10GB which is empty. I was considering making the 10GB drive common storage for both OS' as FAT32. I would then move my data from the 20GB drive to the 10GB, partition the 20GB drive and install FreeBSD alongside Windows XP. Besides setting up the bootloader, would there be any FreeBSD problems with this configuration? In what ways could I set up dual-booting for this configuration, and which method is best? Alternately, I could just install FreeBSD on the 10GB drive, leaving the 20GB/Windows XP drive untouched. In what ways can I set up dual-booting for this alternate configuration, and which method is best? Are there any online documents that address this, or would be insightful? Thank you for you help. Mike McGranahan Worst case scenario, I could use the alter the BIOS to control which drive boots. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message