Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:07:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: mikemcg@ucla.edu, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD 4.7 and Windows XP Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212171101270.5502-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200212161504.gBGF48h14555@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Do the FreeBSD install last because any Microsloth installation will > generally disregard stuff put there by other systems and wipe out > or rewrite whatever it chooses without regard to what you want or > try to tell it to do. But FreeBSD is better mannered. Heh, that might be the case with "other" MS OSes, but XP is pretty good (it uses the nt installer, basically). The only problem I've had with an XP/FreeBSD installation was down to a Dell powertools partition, which XP carefully navigated, but the BSD installer didn't grok (the disk contents appear to be shifted by 64 sectors) and trashed the partition table. So your mileage, as they say, (and knee-jerk reactions to the side), may vary. The XP bootloader works fine for dual-booting BSD, incidentally. You'll need a copy of the BSD boot code. jan PS. For what it's worth, XP boots fast, too :-) (25 seconds from poweron to being logged in.) -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ The Java disclaimer: values of 'anywhere' may vary between regions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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