From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 04:44:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B5F16A4CF for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:44:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.finnovative.net (mail.finnovative.net [204.247.59.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96D343D49 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:44:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linuxuser@finnovative.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([192.168.55.105]) by mail.finnovative.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:44:43 -0800 Message-ID: <42215037.70700@finnovative.net> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:44:39 -0800 From: Joaquin Menchaca User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric References: <421BB6F6.2080704@savaka.com> In-Reply-To: <421BB6F6.2080704@savaka.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Feb 2005 04:44:43.0856 (UTC) FILETIME=[0E73CD00:01C51C87] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: winxp and freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:44:45 -0000 I always install WinXP first, as Win whipes out the MSB. Then install FreeBSD. You can setup the whole partitioning in Windows if you like (creating one additionally primary partition for FreeBSD), or do it in FreeBSD. The FreeBSD utilities, though not as intuitive as graphical tools, but still very excellent. - joaquin