From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 27 14:02:26 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 C025D16A41F for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4B043D75 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id jBRE2MiU022893; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:02:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id jBRE2Mjf022892; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:02:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200512271402.jBRE2Mjf022892@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: dick@nagual.st (dick hoogendijk) Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:02:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20051227102447.GB7107@lothlorien.nagual.st> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: how to dual boot 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: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:02:26 -0000 > > On 26 Dec Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Just put the FreeBSD install CD back in and install the FreeBSD MBR. > > It will give you a choice as to which to boot. It works just fine. > > It's only quirk is that, if the MS slice is an NTFS type of filesystem > > it will identify it as ??? in the menu rather than MS-DOS as it > > identifies the FAT type file systems. > > That weirdness is over in 6.x > NTFS partitions are under "Fx DOS" now and I must say I like this much > better then "???" Ah, good. I haven't had time to install the 6.0 that I downloaded yet. ////jerry > > -- > dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE > ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >