Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:00:12 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Windows 2000 co-existing with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011271354250.67549-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com>
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Hi - (I've searched the lists and found nothing so here goes...) I've dual booted before with win98/freebsd without problems, but win2k seems a bit different... I've got a 10GB drive with 2GB and 8GB partitions (in that order). I installed win2k on the 8GB part (it also installed some files on the 2GB part -- ntldr, etc...). I did it this way to avoid the 8GB boundary. According to win2k everything I do is on "D:". Today I decided to try installing FreeBSD... so I put in the boot disks and re-typed the partition, wrote it, installed the boot manager. Then I quit cause I needed to get back into windows for work (*sigh*) and couldn't. the boot manager didn't see anything but the FreeBSD partition. Well, after mucking around a lot I got rid of the boot partitition, but still no windows 2000. I finally booted the CD in rescue mode and formatted C: (2GB) and copied over the handful of files it needed. Now win2k boots. Anyway, a kind of scary experience :) So... can someone tell me how to get the two to co-exist? And is it going to even be possible to do it this way or am I going to need to put win2k first, then freebsd? Also, once I do this, win2k will think it's on "C:" won't it? What all will that mess up since it now thinks it's on "D:"? Thanks! -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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