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Date:      Sat, 31 Aug 2002 06:51:16 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Windows 2000
Message-ID:  <3D70C9D4.8030608@owt.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020831040359.05191330@pop.vt.edu>

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Raymond Law wrote:

> I installed Windows 2000 on the first hard drive and FreeBSD on the 
> second hard drive, then got the "limited virtual memory" error when 
> logging on to Windows 2000.  I had to switch the hard drives and install 
> Windows 2000 on my FreeBSD drive, and then switch the hard drives back 
> again and swapped the drive letters to restore Windows 2000.
> 
> What I did was to install FreeBSD on the second hard drive, leaving the 
> first hard for Windows 2000 (NTFS).  I also installed the FreeBSD boot 
> manager on the MBR of my first hard drive.  This worked when I had 
> Windows 98 on my first hard drive with FAT32.  Is there any necessary 
> steps for installing FreeBSD with existing Windows 2000 that I might 
> have missed?  Thank you.


I have several dual boot systems. I share all of the HDs. I found that 
buildworlds are much faster if you move things like /usr/src and 
/usr/obj onto their own HD/controller from the rest of the system.

Since FreeBSD / and Windows c-drive are on the same disk, I just added 
  /boot/boot1 onto c-drive and used ntldr to boot both systems. Other 
people use FreeBSD's bootmgr to do the same thing.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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