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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:09:22 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Rino Mardo <rmardo@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Win2k w/ NTFS -- want to add FBSD
Message-ID:  <3B7E30C2.47AF39B@urx.com>
References:  <EIEJJDNOODKOCHBBKBIJIEDGCHAA.luomat@peak.org> <001301c1275e$8f4f1be0$e302a8c0@W2K9> <009f01c127c6$2f02b900$94a145ca@rino>

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Rino Mardo wrote:
> 
> 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?

No, it has worked that way from NT-4 to XP. It is like the comments about
cylinder 1024, which ceased to be a problem several releases ago (at least).
It is easier if FreeBSD is located on the same drive as your boot because
you only have to copy /boot/boot1 to c:/bootsect.bsd and then add that to
your boot.ini.

Kent

> 
> 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
> 
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