From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 18:48:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3106A37B402 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA68638; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:46:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:46:40 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jolok Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help, please! In-Reply-To: <000801c1c0e8$0ad63280$06aae00c@jolokchurgeon> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, 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 > Wrap lines at 72 characters or so, please... booteasy gets installed in the MBR, which should work fine. There is no need to create a FAT slice. You do have to install it on the first hard drive, though (ad0). You can do this during installation (press F1 for details when the boot manager dialog comes up). You can also use the win2k boot loader, but you have to install first and copy the boot image--not sure whether the details are covered in the FAQ or not. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message