Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 16:09:53 +0000 From: "Andrew Boothman" <0094187@sms.ed.ac.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Dual Booting Win98 and FBSD Message-ID: <39DF4AD1.29110.ABB82C9@localhost>
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Hi! I would like to dual boot Win'98 and FreeBSD-STABLE from a couple of weeks ago. I already have FreeBSD-STABLE installed on a 3Gb drive on the system that is almost completely full. What I would like to do is to install Win'98 on the first half of a new 20Gb drive and make that the 'primary disk' (master on first IDE Interface) so this will be the disk that the BIOS tries to boot. I would then like to give the second half of the drive to a new FreeBSD slice. Now, If I go ahead and install Win'98 on the new primary disk, how will I get BootEasy installed on the new disk, that after all isn't going to contain a FreeBSD partition to boot off? And if I do move the existing drive onto the secondary IDE interface won't this confuse FreeBSD as it will look in the wrong place for the kernel and the other exisiting partitions? How should I get around this? Can someone think of a procedure to follow so this goes smoothly? I found the "Multi OS" tutorial, but it doesn't seem to cover some of the questions I am asking here. Many thanks!! -- Andrew Boothman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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