From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 03:37:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E2C37B401; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 03:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ulysse.assemblee-nat.fr (210.reverse49.fmcf.fr [81.1.49.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C2BC43FDF; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 03:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olivier.davy@free.fr) Received: from ulysse.assemblee-nationale.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by ulysse.assemblee-nat.fr (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) with SMTP id C1256D52.003A5E83; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:37:32 +0200 Received: from free.fr ([10.255.30.2])M2003062712373304360 ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:37:33 +0200 Message-ID: <3EFC1DFC.1000301@free.fr> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:35:40 +0200 From: Olivier DAVY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dual boot, java X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:37:44 -0000 Olivier DAVY FreeBSD Fan ;) Hi, I am very fond of FreeBSD since I tried it on a single little hard drive (*1). However, I cannot delete my Linux for FreeBSD on my dual boot Pc (Win...ws + Linux) since I do not know the following things, t hat are essential for me to well manage my PC : 1. when installing FreeBSD on a partition on the same disk as Windows, what kind of boot manager should I use. During the install, the boot manager choosing screen suggest to install nothing. But how to boot on BSD ? So I tried to install BSD with Linux and Windows, and use Lilo to boot BSD. Well, it works, but I am not satisfied, since Linux is still necessary to boot. What option should I choose ? How should I partition my disk to have this dual boot. What kind of bootmanager should I use ? Does Windows XP (or 2000) could boot FreeBSD (hum ?) ? 2. On my standalone disk (cf. (*1)), I use the default bootloader of FreeBSD. But I can not delete if from my HD, whereas I can delete lilo by executing fdisk /MBR ? So what is the issue ? Is the BSD boot loader not in the Master Boot Record ? How can i delete it, to delete all FreeBSD from my disk (just in case...) ? 3. Why there is only 2 CD-ROM for the 5.1 whereas there is 4 for the 4.X ? 4. Is Java now well supported (I tried once to install it, but it did not work since I did not found the right version of the JDK to port). I 'd like to install a true J2EE plateform on BSD ! Thank you for your attention, I am waiting for your reply, Olivier -- ---------------------------------- Olivier DAVY ENSIMAG engineer - HEC alumnus E-mail : olivier.davy@free.fr Phone : +33/(0)1.42.67.19.85 ----------------------------------