From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 17:59:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E1C37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from stanfordalumni.org (1Cust47.tnt32.tco2.da.uu.net [63.38.153.47]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05296; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:59:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011280159.RAA05296@harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net> To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows 2000 co-existing with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:00:12 PST." Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:59:25 -0500 From: "Donald R. Tyson" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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:"? I have Win2K on the first partition of Drive 0 and FreeBSD on Drive 1, and they both work fine. Somewhere (I believe in the archives) there is a discussion of how to create a file on the C: drive that boot.ini can find to boot FreeBSD when they are on the same drive. You may not be able to get around the C: D: problem without dumping the 8GB Win2K installation and re-installing it on the first partition. (I don't believe Win2K really cares where the rest of its files are, as long as it can find its boot.ini file, which it invariably expects to find on C: as the first partition -- not sure whether ntldr, ntoskernl or the others even have to be on C: -- the boot.ini file simply has to have an accurate ARC path to the other files.) OTOH can you re-size the 8GB partition and leave yourself enough room for FreeBSD on a new (third) partition? Wouldn't that obviate the C: D: problem? Don Tyson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message