Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:45:06 +0100 From: Per Tore Larsen <per.tore.larsen@fernonorden.com> To: "'Mark B. Withers'" <mwithers@one.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Drive Selection Message-ID: <25879E6A7E74D411B9370050043B7F3E09F8BB@fernonorden.com>
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Just a thought I had. Dunno if it will help. First of all I'm going to say that I guess you are using two PRIMARY partitions. If you are allready dual booting the system you might have WinME bootsector on C:. Then YOU CANNOT DO WHAT IS DESCRIBED BELLOW! You could also check this by booting W2k and see if the partition that WinME is at, is a extended partition. If so, I cant help you at all. To do this the drive containing Win2k must be deleted. Set the WinME partition as the active partition before you start the FreeBSD installation with fdisk. (if you want you could allready here delete the partition with Win2k with fdisk.) Start the installation. when you come into the slice manager, delete the FIRST partition on the disk (if you havn't done this before) Follow the handbook on how to setup the slices/partitions then when freebsd asks you if you want a boot manager choose the 3rd option (should be boot manager something, don't remember exactly) Do the rest of the installation. When you reboot you should get a screen prompting you to press F1 for FreeBSD and F2 for WinME. That's the way I did it on my laptop and its happily dual booting FreeBSD/W2k. I know there is gaps here, and I hope someone would fill in the nessecary blanks and correct errors. WARNING!! Remember to make a backup of all that you want to keep. It's very easy to crap this up if you havn't done this before. Hope this will help you alittlebit more on you way. PeTe > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark B. Withers [mailto:mwithers@one.net] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:34 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: Drive Selection > > > You're going to have to do some reading on setting up FreeBSD on a > dual-boot system. That is assuming you wish to keep both versions of > Windows on your computer and BSD. > > I'm not sure if there is a 1024 sector limitation on BSD, but there > may be and you may have to move things around on your hard drive to > accomplish this. If you just wish to totally erase your Win2000 on C > and keep the WinME on D, then you need to set up C as the BSD drive, > and somehow load the BSD os loader to boot D when you wish to boot > WinME. > > I haven't done this as my computer is "dangerously dedicated", however > I assume it should not be too hard to set up. Just a little patience > and a lot of reading. Wish I knew more. > > Mark > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:16:27PM -0500, MMustang68@aol.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a partitioned disc C: & D:. I am running Win > 2000 on C: and Win > > ME on D: I would like to install FreeBSD on my C: drive it > is about 6 gigs > > and I am not worried about deleting an info on this disc. > > > > I do not understand which disk to choose or what the 4 > messages on the > > FDISK Partition Editor are. Please let me know what to > choose if I to > > install FreeBSD on my C: drive and if possible let me know > what they all > > mean. Here is what I see.... > > > > Offset Size End Name PType > Desc > > Subtype Flags > > > > 0 63 62 - > 6 unused > > 0 > > 63 13831902 13831964 ad0s1 > 2 fat > > 11 > > 13831965 6168960 20000924 ad0s2 > 4 extended > > 15 > > > 20000925 4725 20005649 - > 6 unused > > 0 > > > > > Thank You very much, > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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