From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 14:39:48 2003 Return-Path: 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 90BCC16A4BF for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2576943F85 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h9ELdhw15121; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:39:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "Walt Haynes" , Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:39:42 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <000801c39294$9aeaa570$ca809842@walt> In-Reply-To: <000801c39294$9aeaa570$ca809842@walt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310141439.42893.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.4 on the same hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:39:48 -0000 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:48 pm, Walt Haynes wrote: > I am currently running Windows XP Professional on a HP Pavilion > with a 27.95GB hard drive which I've partitioned with FDISK. Windows > is in the primary DOS partition (about 7GB) on disk drive C and the > extended DOS partition had three logical drives (D, E, and F) defined > in it; they are 7.3GB, 7.3GB, and 6.3GB respectively. I want to > create my FreeBSD environment in the first logical drive (D). I know > the starting and ending sector numbers so that I won't overwrite any > data already on the drive. Does this sound reasonable ? And will I be > able to install FreeBSD's boot manager to give me a choice of which > OS I want to come up ? I'd really like to do this right the first > time. > The second you said "logical D" it won't work. FreeBSD needs a primary partition to work. You can have 4 primary partitions on an XP machine. You didn't have to use logicals. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html