From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 13:33:15 2002 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 F37BA37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACEC43E4A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:32:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box From: "Jud" To: zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:32:22 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1035577942.ad00cb80jud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 -----Original Message----- From: Zhihui Zhang To: Jerry McAllister Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:22:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box Jerry: Thanks for your long response. I have downloaded bootitng v1.32 from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it works great. It has nice menu. =20 The only thing to watch is that I should create a dedicated partition for bootitng before trying to install it. I also changed the timeout from 0=20 to 5. The machine originally has: MBR entry 0 31MB Dell Utility MBR entry 1 all the rest of the disk space HPFS/NTFS Now it has: MBR entry 0 31MB Dell Utility MBR entry 1 7499MB HPFS/NTFS boot 126MB FAT-32 <-- BootItNG FreeBSD 68661MB xBSD Who said four primary partitions is enough?=20 -Zhihui [snip] ************************************************* ************************************************* Hi, Zhihui. If you care to make the BootItNG partition smaller (though it looks as if you have plenty of space), you can uninstall it, resize your partition(s) to cover the newly opened space, and reinstall BootItNG. You don't have to create a dedicated partition for it. It will create its own 8mb FAT partition if installed to a drive without one. I had actually mentioned this in a previous reply that unfortunately (likely due to mailer error) never made it to you and the list. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message