From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 22 05:46:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17814 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 05:46:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17807 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 05:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zsS87-0005Du-00; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:45:53 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA01731; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:43:43 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-2) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09738; Tue, 22 Dec 98 13:43:39 GMT Message-Id: <367F9C58.A14F3BFC@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:19:20 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NT shared disk? References: <199812220238.SAA05391@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown wrote: > > I am going to be geting a new laptop shortly. Presently on the one I > have I have 2 disks, one for FreeBSD, and one for Windoze. I will need > to run NT on the new one. > > Cany anyone give me some words of wisdom as to dua boot FreeBSD/NT > machines? Which OS should I install first? What boot manager should I > use? Any gotchas here? > I currently triple boot 95/NT4/FreeBSD2.2.7. Install W95 (if you're going to use that as well), then NT, then FreeBSD. I use NT's boot mangler because you can add FreeBSD to it's menu, which is detailed in the FAQ but basically you just dd(1) the first 512 bytes of the FreeBSD slice into a file on C:\ (call it BOOTSECT.BSD for example), then edit C:\BOOT.INI and make an entry for FreeBSD based on the DOS entry. If you want to use booteasy you'll have 2 boot menus to go through to start NT. It would probably be a good idea to have C:\ as a small FAT partition rather than NTFS if you're only putting NT & FreeBSD on. This will give you a partition that both OS's can access HTH > Thanks. > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 770-996-6955 > Factory Automation Systems > Atlanta Ga. > -- > Windows 98: n. > minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a > 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit > microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit > of competition. > - > (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message