From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 14:15:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05EA816A418 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from filter1-tmobile.zx.nl (filter1-tmobile.zx.nl [194.187.76.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7C413C4D1 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filter1-tmobile.zx.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAFDD4140; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:15:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zx.nl Received: from filter1-tmobile.zx.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (filter1.zx.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10127) with ESMTP id zGBOvGZb3bqh; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:15:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [84.241.204.128]) by filter1-tmobile.zx.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:15:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <479F34F8.2070501@student.utwente.nl> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:20 +0000 From: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <3b2ddd940801281410o77b87c2ajbfbee2f5f276b934@mail.gmail.com> <479E5903.100@student.utwente.nl> <6e9d2bb40801281539l2e983011pff27c17073e6a8e5@mail.gmail.com> <479F1BBB.2020008@student.utwente.nl> <479F1C56.8010401@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479F1C56.8010401@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:20 -0000 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>> During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR >>> overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista. >> Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me, > Using straight fdisk from the command line should avoid this. No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you actually have a command line available in that phase of the install? If I'm not mistaken, you don't get the "emergency holographic shell" until you commit, at which point disk partitioning has already been done. Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware