From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 17 23:43:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A7416A402 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceco108@gimail.af.mil) Received: from athena.hrdnet.com (athena.hrdnet.com [208.194.177.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0ED13C48D for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceco108@gimail.af.mil) Received: from gimail.af.mil (unverified [208.194.177.29]) by athena.hrdnet.com (Vircom SMTPRS 4.35.480.0) with ESMTP id for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:42:12 -0500 X-Modus-BlackList: 208.194.177.29=OK;ceco108@gimail.af.mil=OK X-Modus-Trusted: 208.194.177.29=YES Message-ID: X-EM-APIVersion: 2, 0, 0, 8 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) From: "Cecil" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:27:47 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: dual boot freebsd and win2k X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:43:22 -0000 I got it and this is what I did, I am dense at times, I installed FreeBSD= =20 on the first partition with a second dos partition, I installed Win2K on the= =20 second partition ---> rebooted with FreeBSD install disk ---> Custom=20 install---->partition harddrive----> (it gets fun here) set the FreeBSD= =20 partition as Active ----> hit the 'W' key to force write the MBR --->=20 rebooted and now I have a choice of F1-- FreeBSD or F2 --DOS ---- Thank you all= =20 for your help=2E=2E I apologize for not putting a subject on my last post and will= =20 do better the next time=2E =20 Ian Smith = =20 2/17/07 1:11:01 AM ceco108@gimail=2Eaf=2Emil freebsd-mobile@freebsd=2Eorg Re: (no=20 subject) >I've always had success putting a DOS 'partition' as the first=20 slice >(ad0s1)=2E In the old days (FreeBSD 2 & 3) this helped establish= =20 the >drive geometry for FreeBSD, and while this is no longer relevant,= =20 it >assures that any version of DOS/win will see itself as on 'drive=20 C:' > >I've not used w2k (yet, but suspect I'll have to soon to=20 upgrade my >Thinkpad T23's BIOS), but have installed various DOS versions= =20 and Win98 >in the first slice of several boxes without problems=2E Since (I= =20 gather) >you still have the freedom to experiment, I suggest trying=20 that=2E > >You're probably lucky if w2k will use fat32 rather than= =20 NTFS, in terms >of being able to access it read/write from FreeBSD=2E=20 Another option is >using a DOS 'extended' partition as say slice 2,=20 formatted fat32, for >common access from win and FreeBSD (and/or Linux =2E=2E)= =20 > > Thanks for all the=20 comments but I must not be doing something right! > Here's outline of the install process=2E > 1=2E Partition a single 40GB harddrive using FDISK and make the FreeBSD > partition Active > 2=2E Set the second partition as DOS fat ->> install Win2K in the Dos > partition ->> then doing the install I think it formats the DOS > partition to fat32 and overwrites the MBR for FreeBSD References Visible links Hidden links: 1. 3D"JavaScript:AddFromContact();"