From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 23:55:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E08D16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:55:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89DEE43D55 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:55:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so4256wri for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:55:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dYbMs2AZuPx655rEdpWuwzd9dpfJ9GiyWfZ/Rk0Za7I8SCW3++oBsDDeTSm53il6c9+6WOdnaQ1vg/g2XvFQgOMty2zJfgXRbN7Tf9D4dKuYsOL79AC0axFknUBXslH6YR52r19lselvBSQPYiKnbVpDoM274LAAmlV02ueKgwI= Received: by 10.64.251.2 with SMTP id y2mr2789072qbh; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.150.18 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:55:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:55:40 +0100 From: Pietro Cerutti To: Chris Whitehouse , FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <439E0581.4020507@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051212040744.66038.qmail@web54201.mail.yahoo.com> <439E0581.4020507@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD starter machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:55:44 -0000 On 12/13/05, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > A way to use your current machine for both operating systems without > dual booting is to install a second hard disk, install FreeBSD and > select which to boot from in the bios. It's a slight faff changing boot > disk but works fine and keeps the OS's completely separate. > Could you please tell me the problems which could rise using dual boot? I really can't imagine any, since the two (or more) OSes are on different slices, and can't interfere which each other in any way. Thanx, -- Pietro Cerutti Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"