Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:20:17 -0800 From: "Mike McGranahan" <mikemcg@ucla.edu> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Message-ID: <00b301c2a551$50d49bc0$1a00a8c0@HOME> References: <200212161504.gBGF48h14555@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> It depends on how you want to use the system and how much. > Where will you use the most disk - in XP or FreeBSD? > Easiest would be to leave all the Microsloth stuff along > and just install FreeBSD on the empty drive. I guess that won't > work with some older BIOSes, but should be OK with recent ones. Yes, it seems simplest to go with this setup. I'll have to change the BIOS to set the 10GB as the boot disk, but this is trivial. Hopefully in a short while, I'll be back to confirm that this works. =) > Do the FreeBSD install last because any Microsloth installation will > generally disregard stuff put there by other systems and wipe out > or rewrite whatever it chooses without regard to what you want or > try to tell it to do. But FreeBSD is better mannered. For the record, I despise Microsoft as much as the next Unix user, but I'm a newbie and am trying to ease into it. I've been using FreeBSD on an older laptop, and a spare Pentium machine, for a couple months now, trying out everything from PostgreSQL to X to some C++ programming with emacs to PPP... I'm finally comfortable putting it on my main machine. I'm hoping to not look back once I've got it set up. Thanks for the help. Mike P.S. Sorry for any duplicate emails, I forgot to use Reply All. =/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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