From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 14:29:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DD615757 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 14:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10gxbW-000M9N-0C; Mon, 10 May 1999 21:28:51 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA02177; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:28:15 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id WAA00931; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:27:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:27:53 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Wayne Cuddy Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: booting FBSD from NT?? Message-ID: <19990510222753.B858@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Wayne Cuddy on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:35:05PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:35:05PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I have some free space on my laptop and I wish to install FreeBSD. It > currently has NT on it and I would like to add FreeBSD to the boot menu. Is > this possible. Should I tell FBSD to install a Boot loader No > or should I just > use 'dd' to copy of the first 512 bytes of the disk to a file on the NT > partition and add that to the boot.ini file? > Yes. ITYM the first 512 bytes of the FreeBSD slice. FreeBSD must be on the first disk for this to work. > I have done this with Linux before but I unsure how to do this with FreeBSD. > How could I tell FBSD to write to the boot block of the root partition if I > need to? > > > Much thanks in advance, > > Wayne > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry 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