From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 12: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A50937B5D3 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:59:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.89.172]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000807185957.NTEA26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:59:57 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02833; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:59:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:59:42 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: dpoland@execpc.com Cc: jfb@visi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD and W2k Message-ID: <20000807195942.J254@parish> References: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008071852.NAA13557@mailgw00.execpc.com>; from dpoland@execpc.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:52:00PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:52:00PM -0500, dpoland@execpc.com wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:22:46AM -0500, James Felix Black wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm wondering how best to boot both FreeBSD (4.1) and Windows > 2000. > > > It seems that 2000 interferes with any and all boot managers (go > > > figure!), and short of booting off of floppy, my BSD system > appears > > to be unreachable. > > > > > > Is booting off of floppy my only recourse? If so, is there a > > > document that details what I will have to do to create a custom > > > boot floppy? > > > > > > > Someone mentioned (here on -questions I think) a long time ago that > > the W2K boot manager worked the same way as the NT one and they had > > NT, W2K, and FreeBSD all booting from the W2K boot menu. > > > > I can't find the post anymore (I had kept a copy) but if you look at > > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#AEN2138 it may help. Also > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multi-os/index.html > > > This may not help you, but I gave up and bought PartitionMagic. It > comes with BootMagic that replaces both WinNT/FBSD boot managers and > allows multi-os booting. One reason I choose this was because I > failed > to create a / partion for FBSD that was under 1024 cylinder barrier. > I > had to re-partition my HD and didn't want to re-install Win2k and all > the junk that goes along with it. My partion scheme turned out to > be: > FAT16: 50MB - BootMagic needs a DOS partion to store it's stuff :-O The one that came with PM3 (the OS/2 boot manager) only needs 4MB. > UFS: 50MB - / partition for FBSD 4.0 > NTFS: 8GB - just barely enough room ;) > UFS: 3GB - /usr /var /swap for FBSD > > HTH > Doug > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message