Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:05:18 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Win2k w/ NTFS -- want to add FBSD Message-ID: <009f01c127c6$2f02b900$94a145ca@rino> References: <EIEJJDNOODKOCHBBKBIJIEDGCHAA.luomat@peak.org> <001301c1275e$8f4f1be0$e302a8c0@W2K9>
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this is the second posting i've seen that seems to be afraid of win2k and fbsd together. i have a 30 GB hd and have installed all windows version from win95 to win2k together with either linux or fbsd (or both) and i have no problems dual-booting between the OSes. am i missing something here? Rino ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Falcon <jeremy@intersurf.com> To: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org>; <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:52 AM Subject: Re: Win2k w/ NTFS -- want to add FBSD > If the D: drive is empty then you don't need Partition Magic. PM is only > good for resizing and conjoining adjacent partitions. Outside of that you > are wasting your money. On Win2K make sure you have admin privileges, > right-click My Computer. On the context menu select Manage. Go to > Storage/Disk Management. Delete the current NTFS volume and create a new > one 10G in size. Use the FreeBSD CD to boot into the installation and use > the partition manager there to create a true partition entry for FreeBSD to > use. > > Oh, and you'll need a boot manager. During the install do not choose the > standard MBR option, unless you feel like reinstalling Windoze or relying on > fdisk /mbr to work some magic by trying to pull the Win2K MBR out of the > trash. > > Jeremy _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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