From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 19:24:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 67DCE37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.foolishgames.net (ns2.foolishgames.net [216.93.162.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0262743F85 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from foolishgames.com (adsl-65-42-185-81.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [65.42.185.81]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.foolishgames.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3B3FBCo076180; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:15:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:24:03 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Joshua Lokken From: Lucas Holt In-Reply-To: <20030411004305.GA68310@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.7 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 02:24:14 -0000 Thanks for all your comments. I have FreeBSD 4.7 installed now with the boot manager. Its working great! On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Lucas Holt (luke@foolishgames.com) wrote: > ==> What is the best approach to dual booting XP Home and FreeBSD? > ==> Specifically I want to know what to do about the boot manager? I > don't > ==> want to damage Windows XP in the process. > ==> > ==> My system currently has Windows XP Home edition on a 30 gig > partition > ==> and another 9 gigs or so free at the end. > ==> > ==> I have read some newsgroups, but some people are saying that its > not a > ==> good idea to use the nt boot loader. > ==> > ==> Lucas Holt > ==> Luke@FoolishGames.com > > Hi Luke > > I would go ahead and [back up your data and] install FreeBSD. I'm > assuming you want to stick it on the 9GB free space? No problem, > just install the FreeBSD boot loader when sysinstall asks you--it'll > boot 'em both, although you may get a display something like: > > F1 FreeBSD > F2 ??? > > F2 in this case will be WinXP. > > HTH, > > -- > Joshua > > Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com JustJournal.com "The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC." -- Bill Gates (unconfirmed quote)