From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 7:52: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077C037B405 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from Presarionb (unknown [208.186.109.109]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id B174D226FA; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:51:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:51:38 -0700 To: Jolok , questions@FreeBSD.org From: Lorin Lund Subject: Re: Help, please! X-Mailer: Opera 5.11 build 904 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20020228155150.B174D226FA@ns1.infowest.com> 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 As for Win2k's boot.ini - I don't know what it's capabilities are, whether it can boot off of slave drive. It probably can. As for Boot Easy - an after the fact install from Win2K is probably problematic. The Boot Easy install program will work from DOS but probably uses BIOS level disk I/O which Win2K does not allow. Once booted to FreeBSD you can install the boot manager but I can't tell you how off the top of my head. If someone were in the position of having added FreeBSD to a PC that already has Win2K but didn't choose to install the FreeBSD boot manager during FreeBSD install and then after the installation process was complete the PC would only boot Win2K this is what I would try: Use booteasy.exe from the tools directory of the CD (or by downloading it) to make a booteasy boot floppy. I expect Win2K will allow you to do that. Then use that boot floppy to get you back into FreeBSD. Then I would install the FreeBSD boot manager from there. 2/28/2002 11:12:18 PM, "Jolok" wrote: > > > > Hello; > > I am anxious to begin using your distribution. I am currently running > Win2k on IDE-0, 40GB, and I have a 3.2 GB slave drive I want to use for > > FreeBSD. I've figured out the config and install, but the boot > manager...Can Boot Easy write to NTFS, or do I need to create a small FAT > slice on IDE-0? Can I just add FreeBSD to Win's boot.ini file? Thanks > for your help! > > > > Jolok To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message