From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 1:57:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3542637B40A for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 01:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rmardo@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO rino) (202.69.161.148) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 08:57:01 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <009f01c127c6$2f02b900$94a145ca@rino> From: "Rino Mardo" To: References: <001301c1275e$8f4f1be0$e302a8c0@W2K9> Subject: Re: Win2k w/ NTFS -- want to add FBSD Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:05:18 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 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 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 To: Timothy J. Luoma ; 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